In the article Encounters With Animal Minds written by Barbara Smuts, she talks about her encounter with human and non- human animals. Smuts the article describes her encounters with wild baboons, which she studied in East Africa over the course of many years ( Smuts 2001). She says that the baboons treated her as a social being, and to gain their trust she had to learn the troop’s social conventions and behave in accordance with them( Smuts 2001) Smuts says that her process gave me a feeling for what it means to be a baboon. Smuts experience with the baboon show that if would be possible for Jake to inhabit the minds and consciousness of the Na’vi. Jake had to get the trust of the Na’vi tribe and they did treat him as a social being about
