Just Remember--if You Are Really And Truly

Chimpanzees Have Given Me So Much. The Long Hours Spent With Them In The Forest Have Enriched My Life Beyond Measure. What I Have Learned From Them Has Shaped My Understanding Of Human Behavior, Of Our Place In Nature.

Chimps Are Brutal, And It Is So Deliberate. The Males Go Out And Get Near The Boundary Of Their Territory. And They Walk Very Silently Trying Hard Not To Make Any Noise. They Will Climb Into A Tree And Stare Out Over Hostile Territory For Hours. They Are Waiting For The Right Opportunity. And Then They Attack.

I Believe Sharing Stories And Experiences Is The Best Way To Teach People To Empathize!

Words Can Enhance Experience, But They Can Also Take So Much Away. We See An Insect And At Once We Abstract Certain Characteristics And Classify It - A Fly. And In That Very Cognitive Exercise, Part Of The Wonder Is Gone. Once We Have Labeled The Things Around Us We Do Not Bother To Look At Them So Carefully. Words Are Part Of Our Rational Selves, And To Abandon Them For A While Is To Give Freer Reign To Our Intuitive Selves.

If We Start With Chimpanzees, They Differ From Us With The Composition Of The Dna By Only Just Over One Percent. So, As Far As Genetics Go, We're Almost Identical. The Composition Of The Blood, The Immune System, The Structure Of The Brain - Almost Identical.