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Unit1 Women of Achievement-Reading(2)

When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she allowed to begin her project.

Her work changed the way people think about chimps. For example, one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat.

Until then everyone had thought chimps ate only fruit and nuts. She actually observed chimps as a group hunting a monkey and then eating it.

She also discovered how chimps communicate with each other, and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system.

For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken about making the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these animals. She has argued that wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for entertainment or advertisements.

She has helped to set up special places where they can live safely. She is leading a busy life but she says: " Once I stop, it all comes crowding in and I remember the chimps in laboratories.

It's terrible. It affects me when I watch the wild chimps. I say to myself, 'Aren't they lucky? "

And then I think about small chimps in cages though they have done nothing wrong. Once you have seen that you can never forget..."

She has achieved everything she wanted to do: working with animals in their own environment, gaining a doctor's degree and showing that women can live in the forest as men can.

She inspires those who want to cheer the achievements of women.

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