TOY STORY

摘要

IN MAY 1993 Kakama was almost eight years old, a young chimpanzee on the verge of adolescence. He still spent most of his time alone with his mother, Kabarole, who was pregnant with her second offspring and slept a lot. Kakama often acted bored. At 9.30 one ordinary morning, Kakama was playing by himself, a few metres away from Kabarole. He stamped the ground as he rushed forwards in mock aggression, somersaulted over some dry leaves and came to rest straddling a small log. He lay there for a secondor so before rolling onwards, clutching the log to his body. After two more turns Kakama stood up with the log in his right hand and set off through the quiet forest, following his mother. A few minutes later, the pair arrived at a fruiting Drypetes treeand started to climb. The log made Kakama's ascent awkward, but he found a good feeding site 18m off the ground, placed it beside him in the fork of a branch and settled down to eat. Whenever he moved to pick more fruits, he never strayed far from his prize.