Jane Goodall

And it was so exciting to be able to go up to and groom bananas.

a completely wild adult male chimp, David Greybeard.

It was so exciting when a mother allowed her infant to come up and touch me.

It was so incredibly moving when a juvenile allowed me to play with him.

And I wouldn't have foregone those experiences, but in a way they were wrong, because it was...

dangerous to try and establish communication with them.

It was dangerous to the objective collection of information.

Yeah, I mean, it would be very easy to become part of the group.

And then, for one, that would disturb the natural behavior more than we do by being there anyway.

And for another, it could be very dangerous because they do attack each other quite often for no very obvious reason sometimes.

And they are very strong.

And if we were perceived by them to be part of the group, they'd probably all treat all of us the way Frodo treats me.

Well, from the age of eight or nine, I wanted to go to Africa, live with animals and write books about them.

And that was because I fell in love with Tarzan and was terribly jealous of Tarzan's Jane.

And I thought she was a wimp and I'd have been much better as a mate for Tarzan myself, which is true.

I would have been.

And, you know, everybody laughed at me.

How could I go to Africa?

We didn't have any money.

It was during the Second World War.