Jane Goodall

There are baboons and there are bush pigs, and we're just part of that natural environment.

Almost all of them, they grew up with us.

I can make most of them.

Most of the people studying chimps can make those sounds, but we don't actually make them in the wild.

I sometimes make them to chimps in captive groups, and they usually reply.

Certainly the little greeting sound, when you want to...

approach a nervous young chimp which i have to do all the time because one of the things that we're doing with the institute is to rescue orphan chimps who whose mothers have been shot by hunters they're confiscated by the government and we care for them and to see some of those pathetic little orphans in the markets being sold at the street side they're dehydrated their eyes are dull they're losing hope they're losing health and you go up and you make this soft little

which is a gentle greeting, and they'll sometimes put their arm around your neck.

How come you wouldn't use that language in the wild?

Because we've always tried to be as unobtrusive as possible, to keep in the background, to let the chimpanzees get on with their lives, not to try and communicate with them, but to be part of the environment that they will ignore, and they can get on with their lives.

Well, I sometimes make the distance call, which chimpanzees at Gombe make when they're calling out from one side of a valley to the other, and they're basically identifying themselves, or perhaps questioning, who's over there?

I'm here.

Well, I can demonstrate it, but I just lean away from the microphone because it's rather loud.

But...

Oh, I think a lot.

One of the most striking...

really, is the non-verbal communication patterns, so that chimpanzees will kiss, embrace, hold hands, pat one another on the back, swagger, threaten by shaking their fists, tickle.

And the striking thing here is that not only do the patterns look like so many of ours, but they're used in the same context, so they obviously mean the same kind of thing.

Young English women didn't do that sort of thing.

In fact, as I grew up, I was told I couldn't.