Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young.

Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

The only possible way to get somebody to change is to reach into their hearts.

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.