Her pioneering research revealed heartwarming and unpleasant surprises about our nearest kin in the animal kingdom.
Chimps have distinct and highly individual personalities.
They display both compassion and cruelty. They sometimes sit quietly beside waterfalls in an activity which can only be described as contemplation or meditation. Jane Goodall was uniquely suited to this task. Growing up in a family which was unable to send her to a university, she was largely self-taught. She saved enough money from her work as a secretary and a waitress to travel to Africa, where she found a job with the famous anthropologist Louis Leaky.