“It's about learning to live so that you actually think about what you do and how that might affect the world around you,” she said. She also encouraged young people to make small changes each day and hoped we will all live an environmentally-friendly life.
She told a story about a chimpanzee nicknamed ”Old Man” because he looked elderly from the experiments scientists conducted on him for 15 years. He then went to live in a zoo on an island with three other female chimpanzees. A zoo keeper who looked after “Old Man” came to befriend the animal.
One day the keeper tripped and fell near the “Old Man's” baby and the female chimpanzees attacked him, thinking he wanted to harm the young animal. But “Old Man” protected him from the females.
Dr Goodall said “Old man” was smart enough to know that the animal keeper didn't want to hurt its child and saved the life of the zoo keeper. She said that we human beings are much smarter than chimpanzees, so it is our responsibility to help those animals.
The scientist is best known for her work of studying Chimpanzees for more than 40 years in Africa. She was named as a Messenger of Peace by the United Nations in 2002.
