Jane Goodall

Using my binoculars, wearing the same coloured clothes every day, they got used to this queer, white-skinned ape who'd appeared so surprisingly in their midst, and so gradually I was able to get closer and closer and learn ever more about their fascinating behaviour.

He was fantastic.

That was David Greybeard.

And I probably owe more to him than any other chimp throughout these long 33 years.

For some reason, he had a particularly calm and trusting disposition.

Of course, every chimpanzee has his or her own totally individual personality, just like we do.

And David, instead of running off, would just sit and calmly continue what he was doing.

It was David who one day arrived in my camp to feed on the ripe fruits of the oil nut palm growing there.

And while he was there, he saw some bananas lying on the table and he took those.

My cook told me about this male chimp who'd arrived and eventually I stayed down and waited to see who it was.

And that's how I found out it was David Graveyard.

I'd already named him.

from my encounters in the forest.

And from that time on, he would sometimes wander up to me in the forest to see if I had a banana somewhere hidden about my person or in my haversack.

And the other chimps would start to run and then they'd stop and their eyes were big and wide.

And they think, what is this?

What is going on?

And so they realized that I wasn't so frightening after all.

And it was as though David had opened a door into what was then a really magic unknown world.

They didn't run away.