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| Baby Nemley |
"An orphaned baby chimpanzee whose plight moved people around the world has died.
"Nemley junior had been seized by poachers in West Africa and offered for sale but was then rescued following a BBC News investigation.
Despite dedicated care in the past few weeks, he succumbed to a series of illnesses including malaria.
A leading vet who helped care for him said that, without his mother, Nemley suffered from a "failure to thrive".
This was a sad story and the BBC invested significant resources to expose the traffickers and to rescue the chimp. Still, in the litany of horrors from sub-Saharan Africa, the tale of little Nemley must rank as the smallest footnote.
It's easy to curl the lip at the sentimentality behind this story. Plainly the chimp elicits all those baby-care reflexes in women; never mind that adult chimps are highly aggressive and quite intractable.
But any blokes reading this: think again. A woman who really empathises with little Nemley is plainly into kids. She may be your best hope of being an ancestor. It's time to virtue signal your excellent paternal attributes.
Show a little emotional solidarity and uncurl that lip!
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