the relationship that Jane Goodall has with the chimpanzees of Gombe--and that Dian Fossey had with the mountain gorillas she studied, and Birute Galdikas has with the wild orangutans of Tanjung Puting--is different. There is a trust between human and animal, a privileged trust unlike any other. The contract for that trust is not written by the human: the animals are the authors of the agreement. The relationship is on the animals' terms.