![]() He will first be known as Subject 65 before eventually being called Ham. Just as we can-just as we should as we turn our gaze back to the little chimp. They can imagine what it is like to be someone else. Even their ability to be deceitful proves they can see a situation from another’s perspective. They have personalities and emotions and form deep bonds with others. Hers is a story many in the scientific community don’t want to hear, but she persists, and over time, she is proven right. ![]() She forces a redefinition of what it means to be human when she observes them making and using tools. She describes their emotions and personalities. She gives the chimps she observes names instead of numbers-David Greybeard and Goliath, Flo and her son Flint. At first, she will be shunned as unscientific. She is Jane Goodall, and she will tell us her story and the stories of the chimpanzees in Tanzania she comes to know and love. The young English woman will be famous, too. He will be famous, this baby boy, before he is even four years old. She is his source of nourishment and his comfort, and his body is in constant contact with hers as she moves through the forest, builds their sleeping nests in the trees. She nurses him and holds him and protects him during his vulnerable early life. We can’t know whether this is her first baby, but we know she tends him well. The rainy season is coming, and around July, the female chimpanzee will give birth to a baby boy. In April of 1957 in the forests of what is now Cameroon, a female chimpanzee forages with her troop while, across the continent in Kenya, a young English woman first sets foot in Africa.
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