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This is fresh air. Jane Goodall, the internationally renowned conservationist and researcher

of chimpanzees in their natural habitat, died last week. She was 91. Goodall had no scientific

training when she made her way to East Africa at age 23. She was 91. Goodall had no scientific training when she made her way to East Africa

at age 23. She went to work as a secretary for paleontologist Louis Leakey, who'd been hoping to find

someone to study a group of chimpanzees on Lake Tanganyika. Goodall took the challenge,

and groundbreaking observations followed about the chimps' ability to make and use tools, their diet, their mating patterns, and their social interactions.

Goodall shared her work in many books, articles, and documentaries, with herself as a character in the stories.

The University of Cambridge recognized her contributions by accepting her into

its doctoral program, which she completed in 1965. As her career developed, she saw the need for

protecting chimps habitat and established the Jane Goodall Institute to advance her conservation work.

She wrote 32 books, 15 for children, and was recognized with a host of awards,

receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom and being named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Today we'll listen to parts of two interviews Terry Gross recorded with Goodall. The first was in 1993, when Goodall had co-authored

a book with Dale Peterson about the relationship between chimps and humans. Jane Goodall told Terry

that when she first began studying the chimps, she was discouraged from projecting human qualities

on the animals, but she disregarded that advice.

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