Jane Goodall

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.

They stayed when I could approach, and they would look up, and then they'd continue their grooming or their playing or their feeding or whatever it was they were doing before I came.

Oh, no.

Absolutely not.

They just continued with what they were doing.

Well, you see, we tried to discourage all that kind of thing.

They would sometimes come up to peer if there was a banana anywhere.

But as we discouraged any kind of contact, we didn't really have that much.

There was one short period.

It was before I realized we could make this a really long-term study.