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Hello, this is six minute English from BBC learning English. I'm Rob and I'm Sam.

Having your photograph appear on the cover of a magazine makes you famous around the world. But imagine if that

photo showed you hugging and playing with wild chimpanzees. That's exactly what

happened to Jane Goodall, who shot to fame in 1965 when she appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine.

Jane introduced the world to the social and emotional lives of the wild chimpanzees of Gombay in eastern Tanzania.

Jane spent years living among families of wild chimpanzees. Her observations

changed the way we view our closest animal relatives and made us think about what it means to be human.

In this program we'll be hearing from the iconic environmentalist Jane Goodall.

She reflects on how attitudes have

changed as science has uncovered the deep connections between humans and the

great apes. Large primates including chimpanzees,errillas and orangutangs, who are closely related to humans.

And of course we'll be learning some related vocabulary along the way.

As well as Dr Goodall, the National Geographic photographs also made

the chimpanzees of Gombay famous. People around the world became interested in the lives

of a family of chimps living in a remote

corner of Africa. When Gombay's Alpha Female died in 1972 she was so well loved

that she had an obituary in the Times newspaper.

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