"They kiss, embrace, hold hands, pat one another on the back. They show love and compassion, and they also show violence and have a kind of primitive warfare," Goodall said."
"'That was because I fell in love with Tarzan,' she told WHYY's Fresh Air host Terry Gross in 1990. 'I was terribly jealous of Tarzan's Jane. I thought she was a wimp and I'd have been much better as a mate for Tarzan myself which is true. I would have been.'"
""My mother said, 'Well, if you are set on going to Africa or some other foreign place, if you learn secretarial work, then you can get a job anywhere in the world,' " Goodall explained."
Jane Goodall conducted decades of field research on wild chimpanzees that revealed complex social bonds, emotional behaviors, tool use, and instances of both compassion and violence. Observations included kissing, embracing, hand-holding, patting, and organized aggression described as primitive warfare, prompting questions about human uniqueness. Goodall became a household name for her close familiarity with chimpanzees and her pioneering scientific findings. She was born April 3, 1934 in London, grew up in England without funds for college, trained in secretarial work, traveled to Kenya in 1956, and pursued a lifelong passion for living with and studying animals. Jane Goodall died at age 91.
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