A chimpanzee once came to a human village. The villagers wanted to kill him, but one man said, "No, we must let him live."
Then the man fed and cared for the chimpanzee until he decided to go back to the forest.
Years later, that same man found himself surrounded by chimpanzees in the forest. They wanted to kill him, but one chimpanzee said, "No, we must let him live. He fed me and cared for me; let him go home safely."
It was the same chimpanzee.
The man went back home.
This story has a lesson for us all.
Inspired by: "The Hunter and the Chimpanzee Help One Another" in On Another Day: Tales Told among the Nkundo of Zaire by Mabel Ross and Barbara Walker, 1979.
Notes: You can read the original story online, along with another, longer version. The storyteller was Bekolo Bemo, translated by Mabel Ross.
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