Before she spent decades watching chimpanzees in Africa, Jane Goodall observed the behavior of another form of wild animal at close quarters: the hungry human.
To pay the fare to the remote site of her first research job, Goodall tied on an apron and took food orders."I got a job as a waitress and saved my tip money until I could afford to travel to Africa," the 63-year-old Goodall told hundreds of schoolchildren Friday in Billings, Mont.
The animal expert no longer lives among the chimps she studied for 35 years, but she returns several times a year for visits to Tanzania.
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"I go and sit and they come up and sit beside me and they're thinking, `Oh, it's her again,' " Goodall said.