1 Chapter 0 Who Is Jane Goodall

Who Is Jane Goodall?

Who Is Jane Goodall? When Jane Goodall was a little more than a year old, her father gave her a toy animal. It wasn't a soft and cuddly puppy or kitten or bunny. It was a big chimpanzee! Why did Jane's father choose a chimp? It was 1935. A baby chimpanzee had been born at the London Zoo. Jane's parents lived in London and followed the news about the little chimp named Jubilee. Why was it such a big event? Before then, all the zoo's chimps had been born in the wild in Africa.

Jane's toy chimp was named Jubilee, too. It played music when Jane squeezed its belly. Because Jubilee was so real-looking, some people thought that the chimp was too scary for a baby girl. Jubilee might give little Jane bad dreams. But they were wrong. Jane loved Jubilee and took the toy wherever she went. As a very young child, Jane Goodall had no idea that she would spend most of her life among chimpanzees—real, live chimpanzees. But that's what she did. The chimps that Jane came to know did not live in a zoo. They roamed free in the forests of eastern Africa. Over time, the chimps began to treat Jane like just another chimp, a tall, funny-looking, white

chimp. Because the chimps accepted her, Jane Goodall was able to learn more about these amazing animals than anybody had before. She saw how chimp mothers cared for their babies. She saw how chimps worked and played together. She learned how chimps showed happiness, fear, anger, and sadness. Most important of all, Jane Goodall proved to the world how alike humans and chimpanzees are. As for Jubilee the toy chimp, Jane never gave it away. To this day, Jubilee sits on a dresser in the house where Jane lives.

ARE CHIMPANZEES NO. MOST LITTLE CHILDREN WILL LOOK AT A PICTURE OF A CHIMPANZEE AND SAY IT'S A MONKEY. BUT CHIMPS ARE NOT MONKEYS. CHIMPS ARE APES. SO ARE GORILLAS AND ORANGUTANS.

MONKEYS? APES DO NOT HAVE TAILS. ALMOST ALL KINDS OF MONKEYS DO. APES HAVE STRONG ARMS AND CAN