Tara Stoinski
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
If you're in an elevator and someone turns and looks at you, right?
So you've got to know the context.
If the gorillas are upset, you're going to look away and that's a sign of respect.
Like I'm not challenging you, but otherwise they're fine if you look at them.
It's what's happening in the larger context.
I did not.
I have a lot of friends that work in those areas trying to help chimps that are in situations like that, but I did not watch it.
I know enough about that world to be like, I don't need to know anymore.
Like, it's probably just going to upset me.
And I have to say, too, I love the scenery of Rwanda.
Like, it's so dramatic.
I felt like that was a whole other character, just showing the mountains and what they look like and that mist and the rain.
And it's beautiful.
So that's a great question, Monica.
I mean, I'm sure if the baby had bitten him, like he could have broken skin.
But when he might have been at risk is if he did something that like scared the baby and the baby did a little vocalization that it was nervous.
And then you got mom and maybe you got dad coming over to see what's going on.
It's really, I mean, they are like little fluffball.
I know, I really do want to touch them.
But they're not soft.