Jane Goodall

Well, the termites make a mound.

There are a lot of different kinds of termites.

And these make large, very, very hard earth compacted by their own saliva.

And they're reddish colored.

and at a certain time of year, the winged termites fly out, and the worker termites make passages up to the surface of these nests, these very hard nests.

And so David would pick a piece of grass, carefully push it into one of these tunnels, wait for a moment, pull it out very, very carefully, and there would usually be termites biting on, and he would then pick them off with his lips and crunch them up.

So when you described this to Louis Leakey, what was his reaction?

Now we must redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as humans.

I think, you know, I didn't really pay any attention to that.

I didn't do anything.

I think what's fascinating is every time

Somebody discovers an animal doing something that we used to think was unique to us.

There is this scientific uproar because we have to keep our uniqueness.

And of course the chimps have challenged this belief again and again and again.

There are all kinds of intellectual performances we used to think unique to us.

Abstraction, generalization, understanding and using words

abstract symbols things like this that they can they've been shown to do especially some of the careful work in captive situations and because of this and because of all the similarities in emotion happiness sadness fear because of the fact they have such very vivid personalities

They've really helped so much to blur the line that used to be perceived as sharp, dividing humans on the one hand from the rest of the animal kingdom on the other.

And it sort of gives you a new humility.

We're different, yes.