Video: Jane Goodall imitates chimp calls

Showing no signs of slowing down (Image: Michael Nagle/Getty)

Half a century after Jane Goodall began studying chimpanzees in Tanzania, she talks to her former student Charlotte Uhlenbroek about chimpanzee fire-dancing, the peril of bushmeat and the empowerment of local people

“EVERYBODY studying animals in the wild today needs to be aware of the need for conservation and involving local people. It’s rather unfair because when I began my study there were probably over a million wild chimps and the equatorial forest belt stretched across Africa – I was very lucky to be able to concentrate purely on research.” …