By reading the headline one can ask: what chimpanzees have to do with the French Revolution?

Today, July 14^th, it is celebrated the 220^o anniversary of the fall of the Bastile. For those who do not know, the Bastile was a jail built on 1370 to imprison political opponents and those who disagree with the Government or even with the official religion.

That’s why we can do a parallel with the chimpanzees. This revolution had the slogan “Equality, Liberty and Fraternity”. At Sorocaba Sanctuary, a real “chimpanzee city”, nothing happens that they are not aware about. They are always paying attention to their neighbors, checking what they are doing and what is offered to them. All of them are guards that observe everything and everybody.

But it is not all. They demand the same treatment offered to the others. The principle of equality, liberty and fraternity is very important to a good management of the sanctuary. Do you have any doubts about that? Try to please one chimpanzee and not to do the same with another. Until you go and also please him or her, a conflict situation emerges. In some extreme situation you can even win an enemy, which is not good under any circunstance.

So, chimpanzees are not able to talk, or to write specific laws in a Constitution, or even less vote for a leader to represent them. But maybe, more intelligent than us, they do not need this. Respect and a peaceful environment are enough for them to live well with their equals, far away from the human dictation.

No more suffering. Our consciousness must rise and, as real revolutionists of our times, we should lift our equality, liberty and fraternity flag to our brothers, dropping this human stupidity “bastile”.