Primatologist Jane Goodall has spent most of her life studying animals that communicate without words.
Although she’s considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Jane Goodall didn’t always study the primates. In fact, she credits her deep love, respect for, and understanding of animals to a very special teacher growing up – her family dog, Rusty.
Goodall has said that Rusty proved to her that animals could reason. He was the catalyst for her amazing lifelong career with animals.
