and this is a reflection of our ape-like tendencies? do we have some kind of instinctive aggressive tendencies? you can t look around the world and say no. we do. but we have the biggest difference. we ve developed this intellect, an explosive development of the intellect. think what we can do. and so we actually are capable of monitoring our own behavior. and if you look around at the ordinary general population you may hear oh, i could kill him. we don t mean it. the trouble is that war today is not the simple kind of territorial behavior that it was with our early ancestors or some of the indigenous people. it all has to do with economic development, money and oil and things like that. so it s completely different in a way. when we come back, more with the indominable jane goodall.
(buzzer) olly. welcome back to the special edition of gps here in davos, switzerland. more now of my interview with the great primalist jane good l goodall. do you believe that humans have lost something in the way in which we are unconnected with nature and the animal world in general? you talked about being in a rain forest and being in a spiritual experience. what are we losing? we re losing an awful lot. we have a program now which
and read my washington post column this week. coming up, much more from davos. i talk to canada s foreign minister christa freeland and i had the great pleasure of speaking to jane goodall about chi chimpanzees and humans. to make you everybody else. means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight and never stop. does this sound dismal? it isn t. it s the most wonderful life on earth.
only money for six months. the chimps were very shy and they took one look at this weird, white ape and ran away. as weeks became months i became increasingly nervous because i knew if i didn t see something exciting, that would be the end and i would have let him down and that would be the end of my dream. through my binoculars, i was beginning to learn about aspects of their behavior and one chimpanzee with a beautiful white beard i don t know why but david gray beard is the one i saw using and making tools to fish for termites and that enabled leeke to go to national geographic society. not only did they agree to continue to fund the research but sent out a filmmaker, who became my husband. and it was his early footage that took the story of jane and the chimps around the world. and why was that so important?
how many people have come up to me and said jane, thank you. you ve taught me that because you did it, i can do it, too. but the opportunity came when i had a boring job in london, was invited to kenya. i was about 23, very naive. it was after the war. and i was given the opportunity to go and live not with any animal but the one most like us, the chimpanzee. was the opportunity designed from the start that you would live with chimpanzee? how did that part happen? i watched animals all my life. and i knew there was nobody out there doing anything. so what i knew was i ve got to get the chimpanzees to trust me so i can learn about them. the big problem was there was