Chimpanzees Can Be Quite Political.

I Had Been Told From School Onwards That The Best Definition Of A Human Being Was Man The Tool-maker - Yet I Had Just Watched A Chimp Tool-maker In Action. I Remember That Day As Vividly As If It Was Yesterday.

....i Understood Why Those Who Had Lived Through War Or Economic Disasters, And Who Had Built For Themselves A Good Life And A High Standard Of Living, Were Rightly Proud To Be Able To Provide For Their Children Those Things Which They Themselves Had Not Had. And Why Their Children, Inevitably, Took Those Things For Granted. It Meant That New Values And New Expectations Had Crept Into Our Societies Along With New Standards Of Living. Hence The Materialistic And Often Greedy And Selfish Lifestyle Of So Many Young People In The Western World, Especially In The United States.

I Don't Spend That Much Time Being Introspective, Believe It Or Not. All I Know Is That I Grew Up Not Questioning God Because That's How You Are. God Was There Like The Birds And The Wind.

It's Not That Humans And Non-humans Are Identical... But The Lack Of Understanding That Led To The Slave Trade Is The Same Lack Of Understanding Many People Have About Animals Today. When Slaves Were Brought Over From Africa, Many People Believed They Were Not Humans, That They Didn't Have Feelings. Many People Believe That Primates And Other Animals Don't Have Feelings, Too, But They Do.

I Got To Africa. I Got The Opportunity To Go And Learn, Not About Any Animal, But Chimpanzees. I Was Living In My Dream World, The Forest In Gombe National Park In Tanzania. It Was Tanganyika When I Began.