00:00If I look back, I think the path that I've taken has led me to where I am now and I was lucky
00:08from a very early age. I knew where I wanted to go and what I wanted to do and I followed that path.
00:30Ever since I was 10, I wanted to go to Africa, live with wild animals and write books about them.
00:38And it seemed impossible, didn't have any money, girls didn't do that sort of thing.
00:43This was 70 years ago, except my mother.
00:47If you really want something, work hard, take advantage of opportunity and never give up.
00:52And that was the way I was brought up.
00:55So when I was 23, I got this letter from a school friend inviting me to Kenya for a holiday.
01:02I heard about and met the great, late Louis Leakey,
01:06went to work as his secretary because I had not been to college at that time.
01:11And that led to him offering me this extraordinary opportunity,
01:14going to live, not with any animal, but the one most like us, the chimpanzee.
01:25For me to have these chimpanzees coming so close, when they'd been running away for so long,
01:34was like total magic.
01:36And, you know, I got to see them really close up.
01:39And for the very first time, I could follow the development almost day by day of a chimpanzee infant.
01:46So I had a lot of fun with Grubb when he was little, and I did a lot of the things that chimp mothers do as well.
02:12My remaining years, I don't know how many I have.
02:26You know, I'm already 91.
02:28But I'm really working on growing, growing, growing roots and shoots across the world.
02:34We certainly need people coming together, as long as they come together to do the right thing.
02:50I know.
03:06I know.
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