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In the article written on February 13, 2010, NPR’s Ira Robert Krulwich talks with Barbara Smuts about why her glasses got all steamy when she went to the mountains of Rwanda to visit a wild gorilla preserve. Before Barbara Smuts became a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, she was also a field biologist in Africa where she studied animals such as baboons and chimps. According to Barbara, she sat with female gorillas, and across from where she was sitting; she caught a young female gorilla staring at her. This female gorilla had a friendly look. After a while, the gorilla stood up and walked over to her. She stood right in front of Barbara and pressed her forehead up against Barbara’s forehead. Gorilla’s breath caused her glasses

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