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Today I'm going to be Jane Goodall,

let's go bananas.

Jane Goodall was born April 3rd, 1934 in London, England.

She was like, “Pip pip cheerio."

When Jane was one

her father got her

a cute little stuffed animal Chimp,

and she was like, “Your name is Jubilee."

On Jane's exact fourth birthday

her sister Judy was born.

I wonder how Jane felt about that,

sharing every single birthday with her little sister.

Jane loved animals so much and she decided,

“When I grow up I'm going to live in Africa."

In 1952, Jane's parents divorced,

she stayed in touch with her father

but she was much closer with her mother.

After graduating high school,

Jane got a job at a company

that made documenting films.

Those are films that tell stories about stuff.

She hadn't forgotten about her dream to work with animals

but it would be really hard

because she didn't have a college degree,

plus she was a woman.

Back in those days, women usually just became teachers or nurses.

In 1956, Jane got a note from a family friend

who bought a farm in Kenya, Africa.

Jane was like,“oh my gosh, hurray cheerio folks, I'm going to Africa."

Jane worked as a waitress

to save up enough money

and finally, she left for Africa

on March 13th, 1957.

She traveled for weeks,

three weeks by boat to get there.

At a party, Jane met

a famous scientist Louis Leakey,

who lived in Kenya

and found fossils from the earliest humans.

He offered Jane a job

and taught her all about chimpanzees

like, “Did you know that wild chimps are only found in Africa?"

Jane loved studying chimps so much

that in July 1960, she was like, “I'm moving,"

and moved to Gombe Stream game reserve.

Jane lived in a tent by herself out of the wild

and the African government didn't like it,

so her mum came to live with her.

Studying chimps was not easy,

Jane had to carry around binoculars

a blanket, food, and coffee.

She had to wear the same clothes every single day

and crawled through vines

and got bit by flies and cut by sharp grass.

When she tried to get close to the chimps,

they ran away.

Soon Jane and her mother

both got very sick with malaria.

They had no medicine

so they were sick for two weeks,

can you imagine being all like [coughs]

and for two weeks?

After they got better,

Jane's mother was like, "I'm too old for this,"

and went back to England

but Jane stayed in Africa.

Finally, there was a chimp

who accepted Jane,

she named him David Greybeard

because of his grey hair on his chin.

He came up to Jane,

looked at her, took a fruit from her.

That was so cool,

that was the closest as a chimp had ever gotten to her.

She noticed that he used a blade of grass to poke holes

and used leaves as washcloths.

The National Geographic Society

gave Jane enough money

for another year of research

When she told them about David Greybeard.

In August 1963,

Jane's first article came out in National Geographic Magazine,

but she couldn't also take photos

so Mr Leakey arranged

a young photographer to join Jane.

His name was Hugo Van Lawick,

Hugo was like," hey," and Jane was like, “hi,"

and soon they fell in love.

Aww so romantic and they got married in London on March 28th, 1964.

Mr Leakey wanted the world to accept

Jane as an expert

so he helped her

get into Cambridge University in England.

Cambridge allowed Jane's work

with the chimps to count

toward a college degree.

In 1965, Jane completed her doctorate

and now is called Dr Jane Goodall.

She loved being like,

“I'm a woman and I'm a doctor, snap that."

In 1967, Jane and Hugo had a son,

his name was also Hugo

but everyone called him Grub.

Jane grew more and more famous,

she wrote a book called

In the Shadow of the Man

that came out in 1971

and it was a best seller.

It was even translated

into 50 different languages.

She also had a program on TV called

Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees.

Unfortunately, after 10 years of marriage,

Jane and Hugo got divorced.

She was like, “Bye bye, see you later,"

and got remarried to some guy

named Derek Bryceson.

In 1977, Jane Goodall Institute was set up

to continue the study of chimps

and protect them and other wild animals.

She also started programs

Like Take Care that planted trees in Africa

and ChimpanZoo

that helped chimps in zoos

get bigger living spaces

and make their homes more like nature.

Jane still lives in Tanzania today

and spends most of her time

traveling the world,

giving talks about things

that are important to her.

And the rest you ask, the rest?

That's herstory. Thanks for swinging.