
Remembering Jane Goodall
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The famed primatologist and conservationist died this week at 91.
Her long-term research on chimpanzees revolutionized the study of animals and unlocked previously unknown mysteries about how chimps lived and interacted with each other and their surroundings.
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Remembering Jane Goodall
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Her long-term research on chimpanzees revolutionized the study of animals and unlocked previously unknown mysteries about how chimps lived and interacted with each other and their surroundings.
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Her long-term research on chimpanzees revolutionize the study of animals and unlocked.
Previously unknown mysteries about how chimps lived and interacted with each other and their surroundings.
Goodall died this week while on a speaking tour spreading her knowledge and message of conservation until the end in 2010 Goodall joined us here Chicago tonight.
Here she is talking about her work and her legacy with Carol Marine.
>> You have a man or you have a way of speaking.
That brings quiet 2 things, at least from what I've observed care.
How long did it take you with that quiet manner to gain the trust of those chimpanzees many, many years.
It was a long time and the big worry when I first got that was, you know, when I see something really significant before the money that's been 6 months soon as they Sumi, the chimps would fade away into the 40's.
But luckily one of them, David Gray, be good.
My favorite of time.
Began to lose his field off to for months.
The other some of them to Kenya before I could actually walk up to them.
But David Gray, be it came to my cam.
He took some been on some of the others followed him that we put on us out.
me and my tenants cook.
And so in a way, David then led me into this magic wand because if he was in a group and I arrived, they were ready to run, but they look David can see he's sitting calmly sushi compass and frightening off tool.
And so we did was he David Gray he's the one who demonstrated to using to make?
This is you.
This is.
A very young.
Team could hold.
Are you here?
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This now is 64.
>> Some of it.
63, some of its 64 and that's flows.
Some Flint.
And we can new at this time.
Everything we it was so exciting polled, are you here?
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>> And when you see yourself there.
Do it.
You see all the things you didn't.
No at the time.
I see is that feeling of excitement?
Because, you know, because we didn't know there was so much to discover.
So every day you woke up code.
>> You know what?
What I see today?
Maybe nothing.
Maybe temps running away.
Maybe it's pouring with rain.
But this is an excitement and, you know, the old saying is even not when I'm out in the forest.
Boise, I get briefly.
Still that same feeling.
I can see something we have been at the scene be full because we still learning new things.
This segment hasn't diminished for you.
No, a sad thing is you I can be bad, studying them.
feel that I need to use my knife now to protect them and the forest and do whatever I can and, you know, being point doing that if we want looking make the younger generations, but students than we think.
>> Do you see?
A specific legacy that you will leave?
I mean, is there something that if you're going to write your own obituary, your own tombstone, it will say what?
>> Well, you I really know because there 2 aspects that I I'm never quite sure.
But I think to try and revealed the true nature of animals so that not take so that they really, you know, do have personnel that ease minds and feelings like we did.
That would be one and people tell me dry.
Ridge had man they say, asked us thinking was quite differently and then, but then the other is bringing hope.
I think without hope as a little give especially children.
So I
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