Jane Goodall's first scientific paper was sent back to her with amendments, the editor having replaced every "he"/"she" (referring to chimpanzees) with "it", and every "who" with "which". She changed them back, refusing to mark non-human animals as inferior.
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/annals-of-animals-which-get-who/
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Here's a wonderful little clip of Goodall greeting the world, chimp-style
More on pant-hooting and other chimp-related communication in these excerpts from her book "In the Shadow of Man"
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/chimpanzee-pant-hooting-termiting-and-gesture/
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