British primatologist Jane Goodall imitated chimpanzees, sat with them in trees and shared their bananas during her trail-blazing research in Tanzania into the apes' true nature.

Acclaimed for her discoveries she later morphed into a wildlife crusader, criss-crossing the world to plead the cause of human's closest ape relatives and the wider planet.

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