Hello everyone, welcome back to relax with Animal Facts.

I am Steph Wolf and today I am going to be learning with you about our furry, scaly,

or possibly even slimy friends.

And in today's case, it is definitely going to be a furry

or hairy friend of ours because we are covering the oh so wonderful chimpanzee. This, of course,

is a very special listener episode dedicated to Annalisa and to Rebecca.

Your suggestion is what made this episode possible, and so I hope you enjoy it.

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a patron. All of those relevant links are down below as well. And now let us start to slow down

a little bit as we are going into today's episode. There are two things that I ask of you.

The first thing I ask is that you have your shoes on with your shoelaces tied,

and maybe even the more important thing,

is that you try your best to imitate jello.

In our day-to-day life, we can carry a lot of tension in different

spots. It could be in our head or in our shoulders. But regardless of where it is, my exhortation

to you is exactly the same. We do not need all of that tension where we are going. So do your best to imbibe,

jello, relax, and allow your mind to wander and journey with me into the tropical forests

of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where we will be face to face with the chimpanzee. For those of you long-term listeners of the show,

I bet you are as surprised as me to find out that we haven't covered the chimpanzee yet.

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