How Does Raising A Chimp & Baby As Siblings Work?

Raising a chimp and a baby as siblings is like having two playful friends who grow up together in the same house.

Imagine you have two best friends, one is a little human baby, and the other is a baby chimpanzee. They live in the same room, play with the same toys, and eat from the same bowl (though the chimp might prefer bananas instead of cereal). The baby doesn’t know any better, to them, the chimp is just another fun friend who sometimes gets messy when it eats.

As they grow up, they keep playing together. The human kid learns how to climb trees by watching the chimp, and the chimp learns how to talk and use tools from the human kid. It's like having a super cool buddy who can do amazing things, but also sometimes knocks over your juice box.

Sometimes people think this is magic, but really it’s just two friends growing up together in the same house, learning from each other every day.