[young attenborough] but it wasn't long before charlie, as we had christened him, began to calm down. slowly we managed to win his confidence. and then for the first time, four days after we'd had him, we encouraged him to come right outside his cage. and here is charlie, safe and sound back in london. hey, charlie? charlie? and with him is mr. smith, the head keeper of the monkey house. and how is he, mr. smith? very much recovered from his long and arduous journey, david, and he's going to settle down, and i think he's gonna be with us for a very long time. attenborough: and that he was. and a few years after his arrival at the zoo, he took a shine to a young female. back in 1961, i went into the ape house in london zoo to see charlie, as i often did, and the head keeper came over and he said, "i've got good news," he said, "you're about to become a grandfather." "really," i said. "yes," he said, "your young charlie has fathered a baby, and it should be born in a few months' time. and as grandfather," he said, "you have the privilege of christening it." so, eventually i decided it s

[young attenborough] if turtles use this beach, it occurred to me that there might be a chance that wecould find a turtle's nest, with eggs, which would be a very welcome addition to the rice, bananas, and bully beef on which we'd been living almost entirely for the past week. and here, buried three feet deep, were the eggs. there were 88 eggs in that nest, enough to provide us with breakfast for many days to come, and they were all produced by one female turtle. attenborough: looking back, it all seems rather shocking, and i hadn't got a clue how to cook them. the result, wasn't, i'm afraid, particularly delicious. turtle eggs may not have been to my taste, but the local people loved them, and they were an important source not only of nutriment, but income. the trouble was that the human population was growing so fast that the turtle eggs were being collected in huge numbers and turtles worldwide were in decline. in the decades that followed, the malaysian government stepped in to save their turtles. harvesting the eggs was banned, and a hatchery established on selingaan island which