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Humans gifted with amazing brain, she says: 鈥淟et鈥檚 use it.鈥�

Jane Goodall makes opportunities. Then she multiplies them.

When the celebrated primatologist came to 麻豆影院 in October, she planted trees with K-8 students in the morning and addressed more than 8,700 adoring fans at CU-麻豆影院 in the evening. The next day she went to jail.

That would be the 麻豆影院 County Jail, where Goodall visited with prisoners involved in its , established by Marc Bekoff, a Goodall collaborator and CU-麻豆影院 professor emeritus. Roots & Shoots is a community action program focused on people, animals and the environment.

Goodall, who is 81, travels a lot 鈥� about 300 days a year 鈥� in a heroic effort to promote conservation of Earth鈥檚 natural wonders.

鈥淚 know that my days on Earth are numbered,鈥� she told the crowd at Coors Events Center Oct. 1, which she noted was World Vegetarian Day. 鈥淚 have to not slow down but speed up.鈥�

Goodall stopped in 麻豆影院 halfway through her latest North American tour, which began Sept. 9 in Alberta, Canada, and ended Oct. 27 in Washington, D.C.

At CU she delivered the 50th George Gamow Memorial Lecture, drawing the largest audience in the talk鈥檚 history. She told bits of her life story, paying special homage to her mother, who encouraged her to pursue a life in science at a time when few women did, and of her pioneering work with Louis Leakey and chimpanzees in Tanzania.

She also told stories about animals, the environment and the interconnectedness of living things, warning of threats to them all.

And she posed questions: 鈥淚f we鈥檙e the most intellectual creature ever to walk the surface of the planet Earth, how come we鈥檙e destroying it?鈥�

Then Jane Goodall signed autographs until midnight.

Photography 漏 Morten Bjarnhof GANT