Chimpanzees

Chimpanzees

How should we relate to beings who look into mirrors and see themselves as individuals, who mourn companions and may die of grief, who have a consciousness of 'self?'

Don't they deserve to be treated with the same sort of consideration we accord to other highly sensitive beings: ourselves?

- Dr. Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees are intelligent, social beings. Yet, before Dr. Goodall began her landmark studies in 1960, almost nothing was known of their behavior in the wild.

Through the study of chimpanzees,  humans have learned that we are not the only animals who have close family bonds, make and use tools, or engage in warfare against one another.