If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.

Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered. But humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.

In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts