It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She was playful. She enjoyed having her babies, as good mothers do.

People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.