During the first two-three years of an infant chimpanzee's life, breastfeeding is intensive. After that, infants seek other foods and continue to sporadically nurse until they are weaned at about their fifth year. They occasionally eat feces of their enemies, pick out scraps from their own feces, sniff and lick every part of their friends and associates bodies. They lick their wounds, and the wounds of others. When they kill animals they drink the blood from the eyes and eat the brain first.
Nothing seems sacred.
This was my question to Jane Goodall. Before the lecture I was able to speak privately to Jane, a woman who has dedicated her life to observing chimpanzee behavior in the Kombe region of Tanzania. At our private session, I asked Dr. Goodall why she did commercials for Stoneybrook Farms Dairy. I asked her whether milk and dairy products represented a large part of her diet. We spoke for a few moments about milk and the hormones so contained and we exchanged books.