Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Chimpanzees on Tiwai Island

I showed Salay the picture of the chimpanzee anvil with the stone near by and explained it as it had been explained to me by Momodu.  "Temmui" -- that's the Mende word for Chimpanzee she explained. She described the antics and the intelligence of her brother's pet monkey. And then she told me about the man who went to bathe by the river, and emerged to find a chimpanzee combing its hair with his comb. He got beaten up by it. Then the story takes a darker turn: The young child molested, raped by a chimpanzee.  The   violator was killed on the spot, even before the child was taken to the hospital.

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