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Dr Frans de Waal Unboxing | What Apes Teach Us About Gender & Human Behaviour

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How to Control Your Body When You're a Male Gorilla

Rough and tumble play is part of being a man. In the primates, it's very clear. A male gorilla can be so strong that with his hand on a baby gorilla, he can do this and the baby is dead. But he plays with the babies and they survive because he has learned all these inhibitions over his lifetime by playing. And you don't want man in a society who have never learned these inhibitions. So I don't agree with that kind of policy that people have.

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