Goodall has said many times during public talks and in print that Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 1912 book inspired her ...

At 10 years old, there were two Janes in Jane Goodall's life. Goodall had just read Tarzan of the Apes, the book that sparked her initial interest in Africa, and was introduced to Jane Porter — or as ...

"I was terribly jealous of Tarzan's Jane. I thought she was a wimp and I'd have been much better as a mate for Tarzan myself — which is true. I would have been." Goodall was born on April 3, 1934 in ...