Name: Every day you live, you impact the planet | Jane Goodall
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Chris Anderson: Dr. Jane Goodall, welcome.

and I think, you know, we couldn't have a complete interview

you warned us about the dangers of humans crowding out the natural world.

that the current pandemic is kind of, nature striking back?

JG: It's very, very clear that these zoonotic diseases,

and all sorts of other diseases that we catch from animals,

that's partly to do with destruction of the environment,

which, as animals lose habitat, they get crowded together

and sometimes that means that a virus from a reservoir species,

where it's lived harmoniously for maybe hundreds of years,

then you also get animals being pushed into closer contact with humans.

And sometimes one of these animals that has caught a virus can --

you know, provides the opportunity for that virus to jump into people

we send them off to the wild-animal markets

where they're in terrible, cramped conditions, in tiny cages,

with people being contaminated with blood and urine and feces,

ideal conditions for a virus to spill from an animal to an animal,

CA: I'd love to just dip backwards in time for a bit,

I mean, despite the arguably even more sexist attitudes of the 1960s,

and become one of the world's leading scientists,

discovering this astonishing series of facts about chimpanzees,

that allowed you to make such a breakthrough?

JG: Well, the thing is, I was born loving animals,

and the most important thing was, I had a very supportive mother.

She didn't get mad when she found earthworms in my bed,

she just said they better be in the garden.

And she didn't get mad when I disappeared for four hours

and she called the police, and I was sitting in a hen house,

because nobody would tell me where the hole was where the egg came out.

because women didn't do that sort of thing.

In fact, there weren't any man doing it back then, either.

who said, "If you really want this, you're going to have to work awfully hard,

if you don't give up, maybe you'll find a way."

CA: And somehow, you were able to kind of, earn the trust of chimpanzees

Looking back, what were the most exciting moments that you discovered

or what is it that people still don't get about chimpanzees?

JG: Well, the thing is, you say, "See things nobody else had,

So, basically, I used the same techniques

that I had to study the animals around my home when I was a child.

but it was awful, because the money was only for six months.

I mean, you can imagine how difficult to get money

to go and do something as bizarre as sitting in a forest.

we got money for six months from an American philanthropist,

and I knew with time I'd get the chimps' trust,

And weeks became months and then finally, after about four months,

and it was he that on one occasion I saw --

I still wasn't really close, but I had my binoculars --

and I saw him using and making tools to fish for termites.

And although I wasn't terribly surprised,

because I've read about things captive chimps could do --

that humans, and only humans, used and made tools.

And I knew how excited  [Dr. Louis] Leakey would be.

that enabled him to go to the National Geographic,

and they said, "OK, we'll continue to support the research,"

and they sent Hugo van Lawick, the photographer-filmmaker,

So a lot of scientists didn't want to believe the tool-using.

In fact, one of them said I must have taught the chimps.

Since I couldn't get near them, it would have been a miracle.

and that with all my descriptions of their behavior,

the scientists had to start changing their minds.

CA: And since then, numerous other discoveries

that placed chimpanzees much closer to humans than people cared to believe.

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