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LIfe Of Afia

In the wet tropical jungle lived two chimpanzees. Afia was an only chimp, didn't have brothers or sisters to share his life with. Jaja, mother of Aafia was the only one caring for lonely chimp. She made sure everyday she did her best to care for Afia. Father of Afia was taken by local hunters, it's been about two years since he had been gone. This made things extremely difficult for her to raise Afia by herself. As time went by without a father and no brothers and sisters. Afia wasn't a really jubilant chimp. He did not play games, climb trees for entertainment, and interacted with his mother. Him and his mother were very isolated, meaning he didn’t get to see other chimpanzees. And if they did Jaja would get very cantankerous.
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It is pitch black for the chimp to see anything. He decides to stop walking and find a branch to lay upon. Morning has arrived, Afia had no hope he would not find his mother again, but he continued to walk to see if he could find over chimps. He got down, looked right, looked left. Turned around and made eye-to-eye contact with one of a nature's killers, a jaguar. Everything had stopped, Afia felt as if this was it, the last time to inhale. The jaguar charged at Afia, it went black. Afia woke up, and jumped looking around to see where he was. He turned the tree and there it was again, he had noticed it had the fruits he adored. They jaguar approached Afia and dropped the fruits, Afia wasn't sure what to do there, but look at the jaguar in fright. The beast turned around left, Afia could not understand what is happening. This is out of the ordinary, Afia began to eat the fruit and saw that the jaguar had come back with more food. Afia realized that the jaguar was trying to help him, he stays with the jaguar in order to get food and to have company. As time goes by Afia and jaguar had built a strong, unbreakable relationship that mother nature herself could not destroy. Afia began to be active and played with jaguar. His personality had changed from being dreadful to relate. Times goes by and Afia is a big, great chimp that had learned to live with the help this jaguar. Both of these animals help each other out and

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