Orangutan: Primatology of Bliss, Befriending, Wonderful Dreams

Primatology of bliss? What do studies of other higher primates say about great happiness? What might we learn from chimps, orangs, gorillas, and baboons about this?

What has Jane Goodall found in "The Chimps of Gombe " (Belknap 1986)?

I've seen that she befriends the chimps she also studies.

What would Jane Goodall say about other species? Other common chimps? Bonobo? Orangs? Gorillas? Baboons? How might these primates study us (humans)? {Humans study humans a lot}. I haven't read how she engages this question. (Ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy is one example).

What would Jane Goodall say about about loving bliss and primates? Other primatologists? I hypothesize that Bonobo chimps through their great amount of sexuality over millions of years come closest to realizing the kind of happiness - neurophysiologically - about which I'm interested in learning.

And, might befriending, in general, be one basis for bliss, per Jane Goodall's practices?


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Befriending a bully can be a wise thing to do, too.


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Tired here ... I wonder what the neurophysiology of bliss in sleep is?

Wonderful dreams are perhaps some examples, but I don't yet see how to begin to elicit this ... :)


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I wonder if the pace of life in the forest or in parkland, as many higher primates live, reflects a pace which our bodyminds have been 'selected for.' Does this pace change dramatically in 'modernity?'


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I'm curious to see a book which compares and contrasts ethnographic fieldwork approaches / methodologies with primate fieldwork approaches (e.g. Goodall, Fossey, Biruté Galdikas, Sapolsky, Alberts).

I'm also curious to see what ape researchers like Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Penny Washburn say about how apes they study might be able to study us (homo sapiens).

Ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy?