"A moment that changed me: I brought a baby gorilla home – and learned so much about being a parent" (from The Guardian). "The seven months I spent hand-rearing Afia fast-tracked me through every stage of parenting: love, laughs, and pride, followed by inevitable separation and loss."
Aelian (Claudius Aelianus) was a Roman author who wrote in Greek. In his work "Historical Miscellany" (Varia Historia), he recounts an anecdote about foreigners arriving at a port in Egypt.
"When certain foreigners disembarked at a port in Egypt and saw Egyptian women cradling monkeys and baboons in their arms instead of children, they remarked: 'Are there no children born in this country, that the women nurse and cherish monkeys?'"
