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It was during her time in the rainforest reserve at Gombe, in Tanzania, when she stopped to spend time watching a male chimpanzee who was foraging.

They mostly graze on grass around the ruined houses, and also forage for seaweed.

“With all that noise and all those people down there, right on the lake, the eagles aren’t going to use that for foraging habitat,” she said.

Locals know Phillips as a bushman with survival skills that would have set him up for building shelters and foraging for food in the wilderness.

While on holiday she was fascinated by their foraging behaviour as they moved gracefully through the shallow, saline wetlands, filter-feeding for molluscs and crustaceans.