I Had This Great Urge... I Had

It Was Their Individuality Combined With The Shyness Of Their Behavior That Remained The Most Captivating Impression Of This First Encounter With The Greatest Of The Great Apes.

Gorillas Are Almost Altruistic In Nature. There's Very Little If Any 'me-itis.' When I Get Back To Civilization I'm Always Appalled By 'me, Me, Me.'

One Of The Basic Steps In Saving A Threatened Species Is To Learn More About It: Its Diet, Its Mating And Reproductive Processes, Its Range Patterns, Its Social Behavior.

Active Conservation [of Gorillas] Involves Simply Going Out Into The Forest, On Foot, Day After Day After Day, Attempting To Capture Poachers, Killing-regretfully-poacher Dogs, Which Spread Rabies Within The Park, And Cutting Down Traps.

There Are Times When One Cannot Accept Facts For Fear Of Shattering One's Being. As I Listened To Ian's News, All Of Digit's Life, Since My First Meeting With Him As A Playful Little Ball Of Black Fluff Ten Years Earlier, Passed Through My Mind. From That Moment On, I Came To Live Within An Insulated Part Of Myself.