Jane Goodall

They have relaxed relationships with other adults, whereas those that have the colder, less supportive mothers tend to grow up being rather nervous, finding it difficult to relate well to other adults, and usually being rather low-ranking on the dominant scale.

So if this early experience is so important for chimps, is it perhaps also for humans?

And I believe that it is, and I think there's a growing body of scientific data to suggest that that's so.

Yeah.

And I also spent, you know, for the first three years, I basically was with him all the time.

And people have said, oh, well, you were so lucky you could do your research and stay with your child.

But in fact, because I made this conscious decision to spend time with him because I felt it was important.

That meant that I actually stopped following the chimps.

I just occasionally walked up to look at them, but then I'd go back and spend time with my son.

And the funny thing is that even if I hadn't observed the chimps, I probably would have brought my son up in much the same way because my mother treated us very much like the old female flow treated her young.

So I don't know.

Oh yeah, by that time we'd built up the research station, which of course is still very dynamic and alive today.

So we're actually approaching our 40th year of research.

It's the longest unbroken study of any group of wild animals in the world.

And the wonderful thing is we have one chimpanzee, Fifi, Flo's daughter, who was a small infant when I began in 1960.

And she's the only one still alive today from those early years.

But, you know, I can go back to Gombe, look into her eyes, and I know that there are certain memories that she and I share from those early years.

Oh, absolutely.

Chips are meat eaters.

And they have been known to take human infants for food, including at Gombe.