#social-bonds

#social-bonds

A listener's five-year-old daughter, an only child, expresses the desire for a sibling, reflecting a quest for connection and companionship in a rural setting.

Water is a kind of archive, a kind of storehouse of memory that is, nevertheless, always in flux. Water has a clear chemical formula, but that is perhaps the only thing clear about this most fundamental of agents in the lives of people and societies.

This tea shop stands as a testament to social bonds, fostered over decades of shared moments, where regular customers bond while brewing and enjoying tea together.

When I talk about my time in the field, and how wonderful and fascinating chimpanzees are, one thing that often surprises people is that chimps eat meat. Listeners are truly shocked—"Wait what?" they say, "Chimps eat other animals?" They do, I say. They eat piglets, and small deer, but mostly monkeys. The chimps of Ngogo, Uganda, spend a good amount of time hunting monkeys—often opportunistically, when they encounter some while traveling—and eat their prey raw.