Jane Goodall was just a toddler when she fell in love with a lifelike toy chimpanzee she received on her second birthday in 1936. She still has the stuffed ape she named Jubilee. It was the start of a lifetime commitment to real primates.

Since she was a young adult, Goodall has devoted her life to studying the species and fighting to protect them and the environment.

She founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation in 1977. Roots & Shoots is a program she founded that encourages students to participate in projects that further those goals and there are now 4,500 Roots & Shoots groups in 70 countries around the world.

Books like "The Story of Dr. Dolittle" and "The Jungle Book" had a huge impact on her childhood and Goodall worked hard to earn the money to travel from England to Kenya at the age of 23.

In Africa, she met Dr. Louis Leakey, who chose her to begin a study of chimpanzees to gain insight into man's evolution. Goodall proved to be the perfect person for the project: She loved the solitary life she found in the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve.

Goodall needed lots of patience to study the apes. At first, they ran away when she appeared. But as she silently watched them through binoculars, they began to accept her.

In 1960, Goodall made one of her most important discoveries when she saw chimps she named David Greybeard and Goliath use twigs to fish termites from a nest. Until then, scientists believed humans were the only species to use tools. She also witnessed chimpanzees engaged in brutal, primitive warfare, but she also witnessed a chimpanzee adopt an orphan chimp.

You can read more about her fascinating life at www.janegoodall.org/ on the Web and celebrate Goodall's birthday Monday by making a chimpanzee mask.

Supplies you will need:• Photograph of a chimpanzee• 1 old CD• 1 craft stick• Construction paper• Large wiggle eyes• Scissors• Black markerYou can draw the head of the chimpanzee freehand using the photo for a reference. Make the head out of black construction paper, a little larger than the CD. Draw two of the head shapes and cut them out.Draw the face shape, including the round, oblong mouth and wider eye section on brown construction paper and cut out. Glue it to one of the black head shapes. Make two crescent shapes for the ears in brown and glue on. Draw the nose and mouth with a marker and glue on the eyes.Glue the CD to the back of the head and the craft stick to the bottom of the CD. Glue the other head shape on the mask back.