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Científica Jane Goodall, Well I have always been very fond of the animals…
Científica Jane Goodall
What was the most exciting moment of your time with the chimps, are there any in particular?
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Who do you like best, chimpanzees or humans?
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What do you think about people who keep chimpanzees as pets, given the implications of violence, such as the case of the Connecticut woman who was attacked by her neighbor?
Absolute mistake we have impasses as a pet or any primate in that sense and most other exotic species too if the chimpanzees is when they are small they are cute and people take them as children but when they reach their earliest adolescence they are also strong as a human and chimpanzees are completely unpredictable you can't predict what will trigger a sudden event.
They can give you a good life, they are not a pet they are an individual with their own way of life and they are not meant to live with humans.
Well I have always been very fond of the animals I work with and although a scientist is supposed to be subjective and not show empathy I have always thought that it doesn't have to be like that.
And it's the empathy that I feel because I feel that empathy is that that behavior should mean something and then I can use your scientific training to answer the questions and find out if your intuition is right.
There are some people who are not very affectionate with other people and some people who seem to care about animals and not people
And fortunately I have realized by learning from the animals as we part of the animal kingdom the impasses teach us that there is not one dividing. So the kind of empathy I have for people is the kind of empathy I have for animals
Chimps are so much like us that I like some chimps better than some humans. And some humans more than some chimps is not that I like them more.
There are two, it was when David was still there, the chimpanzee that I lost my fear the fastest, I followed him through the forest in the first days and suddenly he went into a very dense spinoza. So I said to him and there was an oil palm fruit on the ground and I picked it up because chimps like it and I missed it he turned his head so I got closer to it he didn't turn his head and looked me straight in the eyes.
And the other one was when she also lost her fear very soon she has a little baby that is learning to walk in 5 months and she trusts me so much that when he comes to me and shake her hand she doesn't break it as her sole being just keeps her hand around him.
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