The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanz... - Jane Goodall

"The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves."

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