Uhlenbroek responded immediately. Opportunities like that are so incredible, you have to seize them. While at the project, she researched her PhD and filmed Chimpanzee Diary . But Uhlenbroek doesn't subscribe to the theory that women are drawn to this area of research by displaced maternal instincts. I would say that most of it has to do with the fact that women are more patient - it takes a long time to win an animal's confidence so that you can observe it.
Women are willing to wait longer than men, who tend to want results quickly.
You have to be prepared to become completely absorbed. She remains philosophical about future romances. She won't say whether her boyfriend was a fellow researcher or not, and visibly squirms as she divulges that they are still good friends. She has little truck with the popular suspicion that women who devote their lives to primate research are social misfits. Usually, you are with such a small group of people that you form quite intense relationships with them.