I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.
Of course animals have a personality and emotions.
I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.
As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is.