2023-06-04 19:47:38
Max Hurdebourcq. Caroline Thiron
INTERVIEW – This self-taught naturalist has been fighting since 2006, particularly in Gabon, for the defense of primates.
It was during a report in Gabon on logging that the former journalist came across the gaze of a female gorilla on a track. She was walking along the side, her little one on her back. The case was heard: Max Hurdebourcq would now devote himself to saving primates. His fight has been the subject of numerous television reports and a documentary, Idjanga, the gorilla forestin 2022. He now publishes The Gorilla Whisperer (Editions du Rocher).
LE FIGARO. – The gorilla, you say, is one of the primates closest to man. That’s to say?
Max HURDEBOURCQ. – Man belongs to the family of great apes without a tail: gibbons, orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas. We share 99% of our genome with the gorilla. Like us, this one has a face with close eyes located on the same plane, and evolution has endowed it with three-dimensional vision. Like us, he has two legs, two arms, hands with thumbs…
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