jane goodall

     

(Alex reports on location) At the Sweetwaters Game Reserve in east Africa, chimpanzees are cared for at a sanctuary that works closely with this world-famous chimp researcher

Trivia about jane goodall

  • Her long work with chimps taught her "There is no sharp line dividing human from nonhuman"
  • See Jane. See Jane with chimps. Identify Jane!
  • She's the British chimp expert born April 3, 1934
  • Unless we act now, she says, "The world is...close to the day when there will be no more great apes in the wild"
  • One of her popular books about chimps is titled "In The Shadow of Man"
  • In 1995, for her groundbreaking study of African chimps, she was awarded the Hubbard Medal
  • She has written "The Chimpanzee Family Book" & "My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees"
  • She's the world-famous dame seen here
  • Don't laugh, but this expert on chimpanzees wrote a 1971 book about hyenas called "Innocent Killers"
  • In the 1960s she was credited with making the first recorded observations that chimps eat meat & make & use tools
  • This British woman is regarded as the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees
  • In 1986 she presented the cumulative findings of her research in "The Chimpanzees of Gombe"
  • In the 1960s she made the first recorded observations of chimpanzees eating meat & making & using tools