Loyalty

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often easygoing . He allows them to pull his hair , punch him , and crawl all over him . Once when a little gorilla leaned against a huge silverback , the male grabbed a long-stemmed flower and tickled the infant with it . Babies are in fact , popular with the entire group . Male and female gorillas hug and play with them much the way we do with human babies .
Females move up in rank when they become mothers . If one wants a better place to sit , a childless female will move over for her . Or a female without little ones will play baby-sitter while a mother eats or naps .
The jungle exposes all animals to dangers , even the mighty gorilla . These great apes climb trees carefully , but now and then they misjudge the strength of the branches and fall. They also get injuried by running into sharp , pointed branches . When they can , they treat their own wounds . They lick the broken skin and pull the hair from the injured area . If they can't reach it , another animal in the group ...

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short , as friends . What , then , are the qualities of a friend ? I know the feeling I have when I am with one . It is "I belong here" . Seeing a good friend is like going home , or like tasting Mother's cooking. I feel secure ,and need not protect myself . "Here" , I say , "it is safe , for I am loved" , that's how I feel now each time I cross my Dojan 's door . However , it is not onlly the survival of our species that depends on our capacity for making friends , but our individual survival as well . Our cities are becoming unlivable because of what individuals do to each other. Resident and others forms of individual violence . People who are in the way are treated as objects to be ...

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