It was during a report in Gabon on a logging operation that the former journalist met on a track the eyes of a female gorilla. She walked on the side of the road, her little one on her back. The cause was clear: Max Hurdebourcq would henceforth devote himself to saving primates. His struggle has been the subject of numerous television reports and a documentary, Idjanga, the Gorilla Forest, in 2022. He now publishes L'Homme qui murmure à l'oreille des gorilles (Éditions du Rocher).
THE FIGARO. - The gorilla, you say, is one of the primates closest to man. That is?
Max HURDEBOURCQ. - Man belongs to the family of tailless great apes: gibbons, orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas. We share 99% of our genome with the gorilla. Like us, this one has a face with close eyes located on the same plane, and evolution has endowed it with a three-dimensional vision. Like us, he has two legs, two arms, hands with thumbs...
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