Chimpanzees
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It's the thing that we do to our worst criminals, and we do that to
chimpanzees
without even thinking about it.
They're two young male
chimpanzees
who are being used for biomedical, anatomical research at Stony Brook.
And these
chimpanzees
would then live the life of a chimpanzee, with other
chimpanzees
in an environment that was as close to Africa as possible.
I mean, you should never bet against babies or
chimpanzees
or technology as a matter of practice, but it's not just a difference in quantity, it's a difference in kind.
One versus one, or even 10 versus 10,
chimpanzees
might be better than us.
But, if you pit 1,000 humans against 1,000 chimpanzees, the humans will win easily, for the simple reason that a thousand
chimpanzees
cannot cooperate at all.
And if you now try to cram 100,000
chimpanzees
into Oxford Street, or into Wembley Stadium, or Tienanmen Square or the Vatican, you will get chaos, complete chaos.
Just imagine Wembley Stadium with 100,000
chimpanzees.
They communicate, of course, but you will never catch a chimpanzee traveling to some distant chimpanzee band to give them a talk about bananas or about elephants, or anything else that might interest
chimpanzees.
Chimpanzees
don't have slaughterhouses and prisons and concentration camps.
Only humans believe such stories, which is why we control the world, whereas the
chimpanzees
are locked up in zoos and research laboratories.
You could never do it with
chimpanzees.
Chimpanzees
don't teach.
Diversity is not a bad thing, because even though we think of humans as very diverse, we came so close to extinction that all of us descend from a single African mother and the consequence of that is there's more genetic diversity in 55 African
chimpanzees
than there are in seven billion humans.
Isabel Behncke Izquierdo: Bonobos are, together with chimpanzees, your closest living relatives.
It has also
chimpanzees.
And the ones that stayed on in Africa evolved into the gorillas, the
chimpanzees
and us.
That is the call that
chimpanzees
make before they go to sleep in the evening.
And it was a paleontologist, the late Louis Leakey, who actually set me on the path for studying
chimpanzees.
Well, if you look in textbooks today that deal with human evolution, you very often find people speculating about how early humans may have behaved, based on the behavior of
chimpanzees.
So it remains for me to comment on the ways in which
chimpanzees
are so like us, in certain aspects of their behavior.
And we believe that this long period of childhood is important for chimpanzees, just as it is for us, in relation to learning.
And young
chimpanzees
spend a lot of time watching what their elders do.
Chimpanzees
don't have a spoken language.
Greeting
chimpanzees
embracing.
So it's pretty sad to find that chimpanzees, like so many other creatures around the world, are losing their habitats.
"How can we even try to save these famous chimpanzees, when the people living around the National Park are struggling to survive?"
As I began traveling around Africa talking about the problems faced by
chimpanzees
and their vanishing forests, I realized more and more how so many of Africa's problems could be laid at the door of previous colonial exploitation.
That's the question I get asked as I'm going around the world: "Jane, you've seen so many terrible things, you've seen your
chimpanzees
decrease in number from about one million, at the turn of the century, to no more than 150,000 now, and the same with so many other animals.
I think that we're pretty smart, as compared to chimpanzees, but we're not smart enough to deal with the colossal problems that we face, either in abstract mathematics or in figuring out economies, or balancing the world around.
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