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[gregory nahas <lettherebemonkeys AT yahoo.com>]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Celebrated naturalist Jane
Goodall had a surprise for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan (news - web sites) after he named her a U.N.
Messenger of Peace: She asked him to pet her toy
chimp. 

"If you touch him, you become inspired," Goodall said
of the plush toy chimpanzee clutching a stuffed
banana, which she said had been petted by some two
million people as she carried it on her travels
through more than 40 countries. 

Annan quickly complied. 

"It's really wonderful to have you join us and add
your voice to the work we do," the U.N. leader told
Goodall at a ceremony in his U.N. offices, where he
praised her as "a great environmentalist (and) a great
addition to our team." 

"I am very proud. I shall do my best, as you know,"
said Goodall, renowned for her groundbreaking studies
of chimpanzees in the wild. 

Goodall was born in Britain and traveled to Tanzania's
Lake Tanganyika to study chimpanzees in 1960, at the
age of 26. 

She won worldwide attention by observing the chimps
for long periods of time alone in their isolated
forest habitat. 

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