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Thank you! Wish I had had even an iPhone then though - instead of a huge SVHS camera, battery pack and tripod with a fluid head!! Not so mobile in the forest with gorillas - who were not so well habituated then!

I am glad you like this - thanks for your comment!

It was June 1988 and you are correct it was in the Botanic Gardens and not Kelvingrove! Chris de Burgh was also singing that day under the dome in the large greenhouse!

Glad you enjoyed it Ozzie!

You're welcome - glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you! I am now trying to edit some more from my huge data base of footage! I have been waiting for the latest technology - which at last allows me to upgrade the material I first shot - over thirty years ago! Now it is available to me - at my home office! I also want to show some of the 'unsung heroes' of gorilla conservation efforts - and tell their stories - ie the Rwandan staff who worked tirelessly with us every day - at the camp and others in the forests tracking our research gorillas. All to often it is just the 'Wazungu' Scientists (ie whites) who get all the credit. Not fair at all!

@@DrAlanGoodallisGorillaGoodall Have to thank you for working to get the documentaries out in the open, Alan. There are many forgotten heroes, those who patrol daily, the gorilla doctors, those who got tourism started, and you who have documented some of this.

I agree! After my own experiences working with Adrien Deschryver in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in Zaire (now DRC) I was the first to say (in my 1974 Doctoral Thesis) that tourism could help the Rwandan economy. Unfortunately, Dian Fossey was totally against this - and even derided the people who tried to start habituating gorillas for tourism in 1979. Much like Trump derides those who oppose his views! When I was Director of Karisoke (1987-1989) after her murder I was lucky to take out the first Vets to monitor the health of the gorillas. We had interesting debates about when we should - or should not - interfere with their natural behaviour - to 'save them' This was especially so in the case of Peanuts - as you see in my video. That team has now evolved into 'Gorilla Doctors' who do a great job!. I was thrilled to become Rwanda's Diplomat in the then new Scottish Parliament (1999) and to help in their reconstruction. In the decades since, tourism to see the gorillas has become the centre piece of Rwanda's remarkable recovery after the terrible war and genocide in 1994. In place of our tiny metal cabins there are now 5 star lodges at the edge of the forest - and 5 star hotels in the incredibly re-modelled capital Kigali. I never imagined this success! The vision and drive of President Kagame and his teams - in tourism and IT especially - have now made Rwanda a jewel in Africa.

​@@DrAlanGoodallisGorillaGoodallI have heard of a documentry that shows leopards stalking a gorilla family and there was a fight that happened do u know anything of it?

@@DrAlanGoodallisGorillaGoodallI’m very much looking forward to you uploading more content! My most favorite gorilla documentaries ❤

Of course - she is on the chimp side of my family and I am on the gorilla side!

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I agree - thanks to ALL the rangers - especially our early trackers at Karisoke (from 1970 on) who NEVER got the recognition they deserved! Sadly five were imprisoned for life - for alleged crimes which took place even before the terrible war and genocide - despite evidence re their innocence! Two have died in prison and the others are still there! On the DRC side in the Virunga National Park, it has been horrific - shades of my early days in 1972 when the then Director of the Parks, Jaques Verschueren' wrote his book 'Mourir pour les Elephants'. Today they die to save the gorillas.

@@DrAlanGoodallisGorillaGoodall Thank you for everything and I'm so sorry. Love sent to you and those beautiful soul's who are lost to this world for doing a beautiful thing. RIP 💔❤

I am sorry Jozi was killed so horribly. It is a sin to harm animals like is to hurt humans, and we should protect them. God created us to help animals and keep watch over them.

Actually - as I learned - it is much more complicated than that! The 'poachers' were mainly from the ethnic group previously known as Batwa. Due to new laws in Rwanda all ethnic group names have been forbidden. However, this group lived in theese forests, and evolved harmoniously for thousands of years with other animals in this environment. In Rwanda, unlike across the border in DRC - gorillas were never eaten - just forest antelopes and other small animals. These were hunted exclusively for food - to feed their families as they had always done. However, when the National Park was created - with no discussion involving these indigenous peoples - they were evicted! No compensation for 'their forest', no jobs - and, no way to feed their families!! So, if it was you - with starving children to feed - what would you do? Unfortunately very little has been done to help them adapt to a new life outside THEIR forest! I advocated tourism - with, as I found in Kahuzi-Biega, some of the Batwa being used as guides and trackers for the tour groups. Dian Fossey was totally against tourism - she never understood or even tried to understand the REAL PROBLEMS of the Batwa! And so, in her IGNORANCE< RACISM AND PREJUDICE - she waged 'war' against them. However, unlike as portrayed in the movie 'Gorillas in the Mist' - she was NOT murdered by 'poachers' She was murdered at the behest of rich members of the previous government - because she stood in thier way of making lots of money! For example - see how much tourism brings into Rwanda today - many millions of $$$$$'s Very little, if any goes to help the people who once called these forests 'home' So, would you still kill them and leave their bodies in the forest?

@@DrAlanGoodallisGorillaGoodall - If my choice is between having gorillas or having people, I vote to preserve the gorillas, or lions, or tigers, or elephants.

@@silverbackV Hi again. Evolution by the process of Natural Selection has - in our geological time scale past - produced a 'balance' - ie the best possible compromise. Unfortunately we 'humans' have upset that balance. However, as I saw in Rwanda in 1994 - 'Genocide' is no answer! BUT - maybe the fast growing powers of Ai and especially AGI will make your choice for you - sooner rather than later according to some researchers! Myself. I prefer "Conservation Management" - for the total environment including plants, animals and man. Sadly, it seems I am seen as an 'idealist!' So, maybe AGI will decide after all!

Hi Chris - Thank you. I have tried in all of my videos and also publications - to tell it as it is! That is what a scientist does! However, some people do NOT like when I tell the truth! Especially re the 'Real Dian Fossey!' That was a sad story which should never have ended in such a tragic way - if only Dian had, as pointed out by Professor Robert Hinde - "Been able to work with others!" She fought against tourism - which was the real cause of her murder! I recommended tourism in my thesis in 1974 and my book The Wandering Gorillas in 1979 & now on iBooks) Tourism now brings in millions of dollars to Rwanda each year. That is why I was not murdered when I took over at Karisoke in 1987 - 1989!

Wow, amazing how the truth can be covered up sometimes. I know Dian F. conducted groundbreaking research with the mountain gorillas but I was left with somewhat negative feelings when I read that she didn't give her cameraman any credit in her book even though she used some of his suggestions in conducting her research. I heard that she didn't even mention him at all. I hope I'm not spreading incorrect information because I haven't read her book myself. Thank you for the terrific video! These animals are so fascinating!! I have watched this numerous times.

Thank you. I find it hilarious, but sad, that westerners (ie Wazungus) still believe that another westerner 'Discovered' the gorillas! Especially by shooting two of them! I recall the old adage that 'Nothing is said to have been discovered until it is first seen by a westerner (preferably an Englishman!) So, long ago I wrote that these mountain gorillas were first DISCOVERED by two young Rwandan cattle herders - who were tending their family cows in the meadows of the Virunga Volcanoes - at least 400 years ago!!! Unfortunately their discovery to Science was never officially recognised!

Yes - these groups subsequently led to the famous ones led by 'King Titus' and another by Pablo, Cantsbee and Shinda

For people who do not speak Persian - this is what this moron posted 'They are so ugly, I will beat them so much, I will punch their brains until they become human!' My reply is "Then you are an uneducated Fu...ing idiot! You are blocked from any more agressive and stupid comments. I have reported you!"

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Jozi was not being stupid - but you are! These traps are cleverly hidden so that ANY animals (usually antelopes) can ACCIDENTALLY step in them whilst walking along in dense vegetation. Maybe get an expert to set some and see if you can avoid getting your neck caught?