Pioneering chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall is scheduled to speak at Detroit's Fisher Theater Sept. 8 and 9.

Goodall, 91, said she hopes her legacy of helping continue longstanding chimpanzee research, and programs to empower youths to think about people, animals and the environment, are her legacy.

At age 91, Jane Goodall is in the back pages of her field study notebook. But she still has more observations to make.

The legendary ethologist (a scientist who studies animal behavior within that animal's habitat) − with no formal training − studied chimpanzees in the wilds of what became Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, Africa, in the early 1960s and transformed our understanding of both chimps and humans. A National Geographic documentary about her field work made Goodall one of

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