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NEWS > SCIENCE > FREYA THE CHIMPANZEE FINALLY SPEAKS OUT IN NEW MEMOIR
FREYA THE CHIMPANZEE FINALLY SPEAKS OUT IN NEW MEMOIR
October 13 2010
Kinshasa, The Congo - Celebrating 50 years of her groundbreaking work in the wilds of Africa among animal behaviorists, we now present a brief compendium of the stories we have published by Freya the Chimpanzee.
Freya came to world attention when she was noted by animal behavorists in the Congo in 1960 peeking out from foliage as they studied her troop. The young female was obviously observing the scientists as they took their notes. The watchers became the watched. The behaviorists immediately recognized her intelligence when a deaf social anthropologist – Dr Natasha Angelenos – began to communicate to Freya through sign language.
Freya has since written more than fifteen hundred articles for Science World and its sister publication Science World: Behind the Scenes. She has always employed Dr Angelenos as her amanuensis. Today, in honor of Freya’s fifty years in journalism, we provide a brief glimpse of a number of her articles over the decades. 
1962: Fluffy Bobo, the troop leader, is deposed in a coup by a rival, Bacwezi. A young Freya is somewhat distraught by the ructions this causes in the group. Bacwezi had been eliminating chimpanzees loyal to Fluffy Bobo for three months, as recently as the day before Bobo’s death using his large calibre rifle to shoot a female named Sidebit pregnant with Bobo’s offspring. Bacwezi, first name Wilbur, runs a lucrative business converting the hands and feet of the chimps into ashtrays for the international black
market. He is ultimately himself arrested and charged for the killings, sentenced to four months in a Congo prison.
1965: A chimp named Numbertu has established himself convincingly as the alpha male in the group, and Freya is his primary mate. They celebrate the birth of their first child, Cub.
1968: Cub takes a liking to some of the cooked vegetables which the human scientists eat at their camp; Freya renames her child “Cubby Broccoli”.
1969: To celebrate the lunar landing, Freya is photographed dressed as an astrochimp. This unsettles Numbertu and Cubby Broccoli. However, she is served a number of vacuum packed meals of the kind that would be served to the astronauts on their mission. Once they are shared among the troop, the
other chimps settle down. She doesn’t know the sign language name for the foods, but displays the ability to form language of her own by articulating a desire for more of the “monosodium glutamate enhanced crap”.
1972: Freya learns that Dr Natasha Angelenos cannot hear. She expresses her extreme sadness to the anthropologist.
1973: Freya learns that she is a chimpanzee. Dr Natasha Angelenos expresses her adness to the chimpanzee.
1984: Numbertu is killed in a skirmish with a rival troop. Freya articulates extreme displeasure at the fact that the humans did not intervene by choosing “not to believe in humans” for the next two years.
1985: Cubby Broccoli angrily reports that his mother is still feeling extremely saddened at the loss of Numbertu. He asks that the family be left alone at this difficult time, and that either he or his sister Misty the Real Girl may or may not grant interviews if approached by the humans, but their mother certainly will not.
1986: Freya is informed of the Challenger disaster. She shows a certain understanding of the situation by asking if there is any “monosodium glutamate enhanced crap” left over from the catastrophe, and if so, whether she can have it. She agrees to stop ignoring the humans.
1988: Freya, Cubby Broccoli and Misty the Real Girl go on a world tour, fielding questions at numerous press conferences and events. A budgetary framework strategy is agreed between Freya, the World Wildlife Fund and the Congolese government that will allow Freya and her troop to effectively buy an area of the rainforest where they can live unmolested. A benefit concert headlined by Sting at Madison Square Gardens – with Cubby Broccoli on drums – makes a record-breaking US$3.6 million. A similar concert in London is thwarted by the Thatcher government when the chimps are informed that a tax will be imposed on ticket sales.
2003: Freya begins a course of anti arthritic medication. She calls the drug “a life changing super food.”
Patterson McMurphy O'Shea, Special Irish Correspondent
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