Jane goodall biography chimpanzee tools
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Jane Goodall
English zoologist (born )
For the Australian author, see Jane R. Goodall.
Dame Jane Morris GoodallDBE (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April ),[3] formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist.[4] She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years' studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. Goodall first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to observe its chimpanzees in [5]
She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. As of , she is on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project.[6] In April , she was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Goodall is an honorary member of the World Future Council.
Early life
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in April in Hampstead, London,[7]
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Jane Goodall observes a chimpanzee making and using tools
In a groundbreaking discovery, primatologist Jane Goodall witnesses a chimpanzee in the act of making and using tools on November 4, —an ability previously believed to be exclusive to humans.
At the time of the observation, Goodall, a year-old English primatologist, was conducting research at Gombe Stream National Park in nordlig Tanzania, where she closely studied a group of approximately chimpanzees in their natural habitat. She spotted one of the chimps, whom she had named David Greybeard, engaging in tool-use bygd stripping leaves from a straw stick and then inserting it into a termite kulle eller hög to extrakt the insects.
“By the termite hill were two chimps, both male,” she wrote in her field notebook, describing the scene. “I could see a little better the use of the del av helhet of straw. It was held in the left hand, poked onto the ground, and then removed coated with termites. The straw was then raised to the mouth and the ins
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Jane Goodall
Dr. Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, best known simply as Jane Goodall, was born in Bournemouth, England, on April 3, , to Margaret (Vanne) Myfanwe Joseph and Mortimer (Mort) Herbert Morris-Goodall. As a child, she had a natural love for the outdoors and animals. She had a much-loved dog, Rusty, a pony, and a tortoise, to name a few of their family pets. When Jane was about eight she read the Tarzan and Dr. Dolittle series and, in love with Africa, dreamed of traveling to work with the animals featured in her favorite books.
Jane was unable to afford college after graduation and instead elected to attend secretarial school in South Kensington, where she perfected her typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping skills. She retained her dream of going to Africa to live among and learn from wild animals, and so she took on a few jobs including waitressing and working for a documentary film company, saving every penny she earned for her goal. At age 23, she left for Africa to visit a