Candice Bergen
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Lake Gombe.
What were your living accommodations?
They were very simple.
I lived in the guest hut, and Jane lived in another hut further down the beach.
We were both on the beach of the lake.
Lake Tanganyika, actually.
And I just had a hut.
There was no sink.
It was a window and four walls and a door with a heavy screen because in the morning I had a couple of bananas on my nightstand for dinner.
And the baboons would come in the morning and rattle the door to get to the bananas.
Because they could smell the bananas or they could see them?
Yes, because they could smell the bananas.
Wow.
And they wanted them.
And so did I. So I threw the bananas.
I opened the door a crack and I threw the bananas down the beach.
And then when they ran to get the bananas, I escaped and I ran in the opposite direction to the camp.
So you didn't get your bananas?
No, I didn't.
But I got other bananas because we had a lot of bananas.