My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say ‘a green great dragon’, but had to say ‘a great green dragon’. I wondered why, and still do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall and https://web.archive.org/web/20111227200328/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature4/online_extra2.html