This story is about Jane Goodall’s life. She was born in 1934, in London, England. When she was four her father gave her a life like chimpanzee named Jubilee. She loved that toy.

When she was five, she moved with her family to Bournemouth, on the southern coast of England. Jane did well in grade school, but preferred playing outdoors. After she graduated from high school in 1952, she became a secretary at Oxford University.

Louis Leakey, a famous anthropologist, for whom Jane worked, assigned her to go to a lake in Tanzania, to study chimpanzees living there.

She’s so famous because she went out into the wild like no other scientist would and studied chimpanzees in their natural habitat.

Zoologists back in England told her that she would never be able to go close to them. Dr. Goodall didn’t listen to them. She went up to the peak and started taking notes, when the chimpanzees started to come closer to her.

Goodall discovered that they were much like humans. They liked to hug and kiss; they ate meat and made tools to poke in termite mounds. She also found out the chimpanzees murdered and even ate each other.

30 years later Jane Goodall is still studying chimpanzees. She has written books, been on TV shows, and won many awards. She taught us all about the chimpanzee world. Without her we would have never known.