On Thursday I met the most powerful leader I’m likely to encounter. He weighs 180kg, is hugely muscled and covered in black and grey hair. His name is Kumbuka and he is the silverback gorilla who leads the troop at London Zoo.
Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Washington offered a rich array of leadership behaviour from the French president and Donald Trump, including displays of hand-holding, stroking and grooming that sent everybody off to the animal kingdom for comparisons.
If he could talk, Kumbuka would be unhappy about being compared to the presidential primates. Alpha male gorillas are more subtle, better behaved and more predictable leaders than either the US or French president.
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