Jane Goodall: conference ‘Esperanza and Action’
The ethologist Jane Goodall admitted next Friday that chimpanzees, just like humans, “are capable of violent actions, brutality and from Something similar to a war“But what does man «Groper is his ability to take the time to plan how to destroy the enemy«.
«Unfortunately there was a being six million years ago, the chimpanzee evolved on the one hand and the person to the other, and In both we can perceive similar behavior for having the same ancestor“, He said at a press conference Goodallwho this Friday in Malaga de Conference ‘Esperanza and Action’.
When he lived with chimpanzees, the English scientist witnessed how «A community attacked other adult specimens and occupied its territory«Although he saw that too This animal “can show compassion and altruism” And for example, An adult “adopts a boy who has been or has been”.
“What makes us more evolved is the human intellect,” added the British ethologist, who specified that, in the chimpanzees, The reaction is seeing a stranger, making a sign and going to him to attack him, while the “terrible” of man is to “take the time and” plan the attack.
Enough violence
«You have to use it intellect to work together and find ways to stop violence, war and poverty in many places in the world«He emphasized GoodallThat at the age of 91 he travels three hundred days a year over the entire planet to spread the work of the institute that bears his name.
He remembered that she was 5 years old when the Second World War started and that she forced her to “learn a lot about sustainability, because nothing could be given or waiting for things to fall from heaven.”
It is now obviously considered that when the tap will come out or that when the switch is tightened, the lamp is switched on, but Goodall Waive The Black -Out last Monday on the Iberian Peninsula serves for “people understand how happy we are”.
“There are now many other problems in the world, such as children in Gaza without food, water or medicines, and my heart is bleeding for them every day.”
Jane Goodall and Cambridge
He reported that when he had worked with chimpanzees for two years, he was told that he needed a university degree and went to Cambridge to study a doctorate about behavior.
«I had already met fifty members of the chimpanzes community and I had realized that everyone had their own personality«.
However, when they arrived at the university, the professors told her that she had done it “all angry”, that the chimpanzees had to defeat them and they didn’t have to name it “and that I could not say that “they had personality or emotions, because those were unique characteristics of people”.
«But luckily I had a teacher who told me they were nonsense. That teacher was my dog, “he said Goodallwhich he has since obtained «that the Western scientific community would accept that chimpanzees do not differ so much from people and that we are not that unique or special«.
The impact of the ‘man’ on earth
«We have to wonder how we treat animals, cattle, pigs or chickens in scientific laboratories«, Has underlined the ethologist, who has warned that every person must«Choose what kind of impact on earth wants to create«.
Goodall He is planning to visit other twelve countries in the rest of the year, after he had traveled to twenty before 2024.
“I thank my mother to accept my girl as a child to go to Africa and, for my father, that with genetics would give me a strong constitution to travel.” EFE / ECOTICIA.COM