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Stany tells this very personal story to a translator. It‘s about how he learned to care for chimpanzees in his native #Burundi as a young man. Eventually he had to escape or risk death or recruitment to be a soldier in the civil war between Hutus and Tutsis. Working with the Jane Goodall Institute he continued working with and learning about chimps. Goodall called him the chimp whisperer, a name originally bestowed on her. Lacking a formal ⬇️