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Because primate expressions and communication are KINO. That apes can actually understand words and use symbols and syntax to speak with us is terrifying. How tragic that we look to the stars for intelligent life forms, wondering if we're alone or not. But we never were. They are intelligent life. We can speak to them. They can speak to us. And it's not even just primates. Check out Alex the parrot and Kanzi the based bonobo. There's also a story my grandfather told me too about a crow he was genuinely friends with in WW2 Germany as a boy. Breaks my heart, actually.

Life is precious, friends. Treat everything with love that can feel it.