Day after day she went out into the bush and climbed into the steep valley forests of the Tanzanian interior. They took one look at “this weird white ape” and fled, as she wrote in her autobiography. A few months later, one of the chimpanzees took a nut from her open palm. It was the first clue that chimps made and used tools the way that man did. But then Goodall, born in London in 1934, had been passionate about animals since childhood.