Chimps taught me how to be a mother

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60 years ago this week a young British woman called Jane Goodall entered the Gombe Stream National Park on the shores of Lake Tanganyika - where she made a discovery that changed our understanding of what it is to be human. She'd gone there to observe chimpanzees, our close relatives. But we didn't know just how much we have in common until Jane had studied them. Now 86, Dame Jane Goodall is still devoted to chimps, and campaigns for a more enlightened attitude towards them. She spoke to Outlook's Jo Fidgen in 2016. There used to be half a million northern woolly spider monkeys in Brazil, but today just 900 are left. Reporter Gibby Zobel travelled to a nature reserve in the state of Minas Gerais to find out more about the monkeys, and the man who devoted his life to protecting them. King Louie is the cartoon orangutan from Disney's 1967 film, The Jungle Book. His signature tune - I Wanna Be Like You - was written by brothers Robert and Richard M. Sherman. Outlook's Maryam Maruf spoke to Richard about the most celebrated songs he wrote with his brother. Image: Dr.Jane Goodall with orphan chimpanzee Uruhara at the Sweetwaters Sanctuary in Kenya Credit: Michael Neugebauer