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Witness History

Jane Goodall and chimpanzees

Witness History

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, History

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In the 1960s a young Englishwoman made a discovery that changed our understanding of animal behaviour.

Jane Goodall was living among wild chimpanzees in Tanzania when she observed them using sticks and grasses as tools to get food.

Farhana Haider spoke to her about her life in 2014.

(Photo: Jane Goodall visits a chimpanzee rescue center in 2018 in Entebbe, Uganda. Credit: Sumy Sadurni/AFP via Getty Images)

Transcript

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Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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0:11.8

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0:19.0

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

0:21.0

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:38.0

I'm Frahana Hither.

0:40.0

And now a program from our archives.

0:42.0

In the 1960s, a discovery was made which would revolutionize our understanding of animals

0:48.4

and challenge the way we define ourselves as human beings.

0:52.2

It was made by a young woman with no scientific

0:55.1

training who had gone to Tanzania to live alongside wild chimpanzees. Her name was

1:01.0

Jane Goodall. The most important thing we can learn from chimpanzees is humility,

1:06.0

that we are different but we're not as different as we used to think.

1:09.0

We are part of and not separated from the rest of the animal kingdom.

1:14.0

Jane Goodall was just 26 years old when she made her groundbreaking observation

1:19.6

that chimpanzees used tools, something that scientists had until then thought only humans

1:26.0

could do. I so well remember the day when as I was walking through the forest and

1:31.7

suddenly I saw this black shape crouched over a termite mound.

1:35.4

It's the beginning of the rainy season when the fertile termites fly out four new colonies

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