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Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

- Jane Goodall
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It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

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Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.