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Dr. Jane Goodall, welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show.

Well, thank you so much for inviting me to join you.

I feel like it's not even my invitation to give.

You are somebody who has been in the hot and minds of so many people across the globe.

You've been studying our primate cousins for six decades now.

I mean, arguably we know more about the world of primates because of you than we ever would have had you not gotten involved.

Have we learned everything there is to know about our primate cousins?

I don't think so.

I mean, you know, after 60 years we're still learning new things about the same chimpanzee community.

And especially when we're entering the fourth generation, you know, they can live to be about 60 years old.

But, study them all this time, you know, you can see the effect of different kinds of mothering.

You can look at now we can detect the fathers by doing DNA analysis from their fecal samples.

So we can say, well, does the paternity have any influence on the personality of the child?

All questions like this are absolutely fascinating.

I've always wanted to know, how did Jane Goodall at 26 years old decide you know what?

Go and study chimpanzees and what makes them tick and who they are.

Well, it actually all began when I was 10 years old growing up in England, growing up in the days before TV and computers and cell phones,

spending time outside.

Then when I was 10, I read Tarzan of the Apes and I decided I'm going to grow up and go to Africa and live with world animals and write books about them.

Everybody laughed, how will you do that? You don't have my world world who is raging and you're just a girl.

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