When Jane Goodall first journeyed to Africa at age 23 with hopes of studying chimpanzees and other animals, her life was a solitary one. "I am sitting halfway up the slope leading up from our camp," she wrote her family from Kenya. "All around the crickets are singing their nightly chorus--and so many different types of song, it is hard to imagine...An owl is hooting about a half-mile down the gorge, and before supper we heard the weird call of the hyena--which means His Lordship the Lion is around somewhere...At the moment I must stop, and after sitting up here, quite...
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