IRA FLATOW: And how did you fulfill that dream? When I grew up, I would go to Africa, live with animals and write books about them. He’s got that wife Jane, you know, so I was terribly jealous of her. And then when I was about 10 or 11, I found the books about Tarzan of the Apes– no TV in those days, so I read the books, fell in love with Tarzan. And it was my first wonderful experiment. Where was the hole big enough for the egg to come out? Nobody told me, so I hid. And I hid for five hours because I was collecting the eggs, and there was the egg. And I hid for five hours in a hen house when we had the opportunity to go into the country because we lived in the town. So I was watching earthworms in my bed when I was one and a half. But animals were my passion from even before I could speak, apparently. JANE GOODALL: Well, it wasn’t exactly genteel. Her bush experiences were honed in the genteel English countryside.” How did you wind up with that background in Africa? Gilbert Grosvenor, Chairman of the National Geographic Society, once wrote about you in one of your books, “She was hardly the image one would project to become an old African hand. IRA FLATOW: Let’s talk a little bit about your background. But my role, other than occasionally visiting just really for my own good, is to be sure that the money is there to ensure that the research continues and continues in the right way. That was during a conference in Chicago when we brought all the chimp people from around Africa together. JANE GOODALL: Well, I haven’t been involved in the actual research since 1986, when I suddenly realized that chimpanzees were vanishing in the wild and being horribly mistreated in captivity. IRA FLATOW: So is this going to be the next part of your career, do you think? Have you moved away from research on the chimps now and heading in this new direction? And it’s trying to explain to people that every one of us can do something about making this world a better place for each other, but also for the animals and for the environment. JANE GOODALL: It’s the 10 trusts that we should have made with the environment, with the wilderness that we have betrayed. The reason for– let’s start with your book first, The 10 Trusts. Goodall had just published her book, The 10 Trusts, What We Must Do to Care for the Animals, and an IMAX film about her work with chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park had just been released. Holidays are always a good time to remember special occasions.Īnd one of those special times on this show was a conversation I had with Jane Goodall back in 2002.
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