Gorillias pose with Anti-Poaching Officers

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28. I worked with gorillas a little.

I was not intimately involved with them or their care but spent enough time around them to say that other than their way of communicating they are almost just like us. We do communicate much like they do however.

The story above about the mother showing her baby is typical (but what an experience that was!). What we have done to the animal kingdom, mostly because we have been told we are the best and the brightest and they are here to be ruled by us, is the most disgusting part of our character. I feel less upset when we do it to ourselves. We really are very badly equipped to be the kingdom rulers and seemingly have little mind to change in a large way.

If we had more time with the Internet some of it would have gotten better I think but we do not have enough time left to actually change enough not to stop the torture and trophy needs of the many.