When I first saw this old man in 1990, the sign above his cage read "Gregoire 1945." Could it be that he was captured and put in this pitiful zoo at the end of World War Two? He had horrible cataracts and almost no hair on his starving body.

On this day, Jane and I went into his cage to see how he would react to close contact with humans. The door of his cage was so long unopened that it was firmly rusted shut. Gergoire was later moved to be with other chimps at the Tchimpounga Sanctuary.