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Dame Jane Morris Goodall (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English
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, primatologist and
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. She is considered the world's foremost expert on
chimpanzee The chimpanzee (; ''Pan troglodytes''), also simply known as the chimp, is a species of Hominidae, great ape native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed one. When its close rel ...
s, after 60 years' studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. Goodall first went to
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in Tanzania to observe its chimpanzees in 1960. 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 2022, she is on the board of the
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. In April 2002, she was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Goodall is an honorary member of the
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.


Early life

Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in April 1934 in
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, London, to businessman (1907–2001) and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph (1906–2000), a novelist from
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, Pembrokeshire, who wrote under the name Vanne Morris-Goodall. The family later moved to
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, and Goodall attended Uplands School, an independent school in nearby
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. As a child, Goodall's father gave her a stuffed toy chimpanzee named Jubilee as an alternative to a
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. Goodall has said her fondness for it sparked her early love of animals, commenting, "My mother's friends were horrified by this toy, thinking it would frighten me and give me nightmares." Jubilee still sits on Goodall's dresser in London.


Africa

Goodall had always been drawn to animals and Africa, which brought her to the farm of a friend in the
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highlands in 1957. From there, she obtained work as a secretary, and acting on her friend's advice, she telephoned
Louis Leakey Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai ...
, the Kenyan archaeologist and palaeontologist, with no other thought than to make an appointment to discuss animals. Leakey, believing that the study of existing great apes could provide indications of the behaviour of early
hominids The Hominidae (), whose members are known as the great apes or hominids (), are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: '' Pongo'' (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); '' Gorilla'' (the ...
, was looking for a chimpanzee researcher, though he kept the idea to himself. Instead, he proposed that Goodall work for him as a secretary. After obtaining approval from his co-researcher and wife, British
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, Louis sent Goodall to
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in Tanganyika (now part of
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), where he laid out his plans. In 1958, Leakey sent Goodall to London to study primate behaviour with Osman Hill and primate anatomy with
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. Leakey raised funds, and on 14 July 1960, Goodall went to
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, becoming the first of what would come to be called The Trimates. She was accompanied by her mother, whose presence was necessary to satisfy the requirements of David Anstey, chief warden, who was concerned for their safety. Goodall credits her mother with encouraging her to pursue a career in
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, a male-dominated field at the time. Goodall has said that women were not accepted in the field when she started her research in the late 1950s. , the field of
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is made up almost evenly of men and women, in part thanks to the trailblazing of Goodall and her encouragement of young women to join the field. Leakey arranged funding, and in 1962 he sent Goodall, who had no degree, to the
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. She was the eighth person to be allowed to study for a PhD at Cambridge without first having obtained a bachelor's degree. She attended
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, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in
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s by 1964. Later that year, she enrolled at the newly established
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, to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy degree in
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. Her thesis was completed in 1966 under the supervision of
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on the ''Behaviour of free-living chimpanzees'', detailing her first five years of study at the Gombe Reserve. On 19 June 2006, the Open University of Tanzania awarded her an honorary
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degree.


Work


Research at Gombe Stream National Park

Goodall studied
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social and family life beginning with the
Kasakela chimpanzee community The Kasekela chimpanzee community (formerly spelled Kasakela) is a habituated community of wild eastern chimpanzees that lives in Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. The community was the subject of Jane Goodall's pioneering ...
in
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,
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, in 1960. She found that "it isn't only human beings who have personality, who are capable of rational thought ndemotions like joy and sorrow." She also observed behaviours such as hugs, kisses, pats on the back, and even tickling, what we consider "human" actions. Goodall insists that these gestures are evidence of "the close, supportive, affectionate bonds that develop between family members and other individuals within a community, which can persist throughout a life span of more than 50 years." Goodall's research at Gombe Stream challenged two long-standing beliefs of the day: that only humans could construct and use tools, and that chimpanzees were vegetarians. While observing one chimpanzee feeding at a termite mound, she watched him repeatedly place stalks of grass into termite holes, then remove them from the hole covered with clinging termites, effectively "fishing" for termites.Goodall, Jane. ''Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey''. New York: Warner Books, 1999. The chimpanzees would also take twigs from trees and strip off the leaves to make the twig more effective, a form of object modification that is the rudimentary beginnings of toolmaking. Humans had long distinguished themselves from the rest of the animal kingdom as "Man the Toolmaker". In response to Goodall's revolutionary findings,
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wrote, "We must now redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as human!"The Jane Goodall Institute
"Chimpanzee Central"
2008.
In contrast to the peaceful and affectionate behaviours she observed, Goodall also found an aggressive side of chimpanzee nature at Gombe Stream. She discovered that chimpanzees will systematically hunt and eat smaller primates such as colobus monkeys. Goodall watched a hunting group isolate a colobus monkey high in a tree and block all possible exits; then one chimpanzee climbed up and captured and killed the colobus. The others then each took parts of the carcass, sharing with other members of the troop in response to begging behaviours. The chimpanzees at Gombe kill and eat as much as one-third of the colobus population in the park each year. This alone was a major scientific find that challenged previous conceptions of chimpanzee diet and behaviour. Goodall also observed the tendency for aggression and violence within chimpanzee troops. Goodall observed dominant females deliberately killing the young of other females in the troop to maintain their dominance, sometimes going as far as
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. She says of this revelation, "During the first ten years of the study I had believed ..that the Gombe chimpanzees were, for the most part, rather nicer than human beings. ..Then suddenly we found that chimpanzees could be brutal—that they, like us, had a darker side to their nature." She described the 1974–1978 Gombe Chimpanzee War in her 1990 memoir, ''Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe''. Her findings revolutionised contemporary knowledge of chimpanzee behaviour and were further evidence of the social similarities between humans and chimpanzees. Goodall set herself apart from convention by naming the animals in her studies of primates instead of assigning each a number. Numbering was a nearly universal practice at the time and was thought to be important in avoiding emotional attachment to the subject being studied and thus losing objectivity. Goodall wrote in 1993: "When, in the early 1960s, I brazenly used such words as 'childhood', 'adolescence', 'motivation', 'excitement', and 'mood' I was much criticised. Even worse was my crime of suggesting that chimpanzees had 'personalities'. I was ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman animals and was thus guilty of that worst of ethological sins—anthropomorphism." Setting herself apart from other researchers also led her to develop a close bond with the chimpanzees and to become the only human ever accepted into chimpanzee society. She was the lowest-ranking member of a troop for a period of 22 months. Among those whom Goodall named during her years in Gombe were: * David Greybeard, a grey-chinned male who first warmed up to Goodall;Gombe National Park
Chimpanzee Central, Janegoodall.org
*
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, a friend of David Greybeard, originally the
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named for his bold nature; * Mike, who through his cunning and improvisation displaced Goliath as the alpha male; *
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, a big, strong, bullysome male; *Gigi, a large,
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female who delighted in being the "aunt" of any young chimps or humans; *Mr. McGregor, a belligerent older male; * Flo, a motherly, high-ranking female with a bulbous nose and ragged ears, and her children; Figan, Faben,
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, Fifi, and
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; * Frodo, Fifi's second-oldest child, an aggressive male who would frequently attack Jane and ultimately forced her to leave the troop when he became alpha male.


Jane Goodall Institute

In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), which supports the Gombe research, and she is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. With nineteen offices around the world, the JGI is widely recognised for community-centred conservation and development programs in Africa. Its global youth program, Roots & Shoots, began in 1991 when a group of 16 local teenagers met with Goodall on her back porch in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. They were eager to discuss a range of problems they knew about from first-hand experience that caused them deep concern. The organisation has over 10,000 groups in over 100 countries . In 1992, Goodall founded the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Centre in the
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to care for chimpanzees orphaned due to bush-meat trade. The rehabilitation houses over a hundred chimps over its three islands. In 1994, Goodall founded the Lake Tanganyika Catchment Reforestation and Education (TACARE or "Take Care") pilot project to protect chimpanzees' habitat from deforestation by reforesting hills around Gombe while simultaneously educating neighbouring communities on sustainability and agriculture training. The TACARE project also supports young girls by offering them access to reproductive health education and through scholarships to finance their college tuition. Owing to an overflow of handwritten notes, photographs, and data piling up at Jane's home in
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in the mid-1990s, the Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies was created at the
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to house and organise this data. all of the original Jane Goodall archives reside there and have been digitised, analysed, and placed in an online database. On 17 March 2011,
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spokesman Karl Bates announced that the archives will move to Duke, with Anne E. Pusey, Duke's chairman of
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, overseeing the collection. Pusey, who managed the archives in Minnesota and worked with Goodall in Tanzania, had worked at Duke for a year. In 2018 and 2020, Goodall partnered with friend and CEO Michael Cammarata on two natural product lines from Schmidt's Naturals and Neptune Wellness Solutions. Five percent of every sale benefited the Jane Goodall Institute. As of 2004, Goodall devotes virtually all of her time to advocacy on behalf of chimpanzees and the environment, travelling nearly 300 days a year. Goodall is also on the advisory council for the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary outside of Africa, Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida. Jane Goodall is an advisory board member for The Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN).


Activism

Goodall credits the 1986 ''Understanding Chimpanzees'' conference, hosted by the Chicago Academy of Sciences, with shifting her focus from observation of chimpanzees to a broader and more intense concern with animal-human conservation. She is the former president of Advocates for Animals, an organisation based in
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,
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, that campaigns against the use of animals in medical research, zoos, farming and sport. She is a
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and advocates the diet for ethical, environmental, and health reasons. In ''The Inner World of Farm Animals'' (2009), Goodall writes that farm animals are "far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent?" Goodall has also said: "Thousands of people who say they 'love' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated with so little respect and kindness just to make more meat." In 2021, Goodall became a
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and authored a cookbook titled ''Eat Meat Less''. Goodall is an outspoken environmental advocate, speaking on the effects of climate change on endangered species such as chimpanzees. Goodall, alongside her foundation, collaborated with
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to use satellite imagery from the Landsat series to remedy the effects of deforestation on chimpanzees and local communities in Western Africa by offering the villagers information on how to reduce activity and preserve their environment. To ensure the safe and ethical treatment of animals during ethological studies, Goodall, alongside Professor Mark Bekoff, founded the organization Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in 2000. In 2008, Goodall gave a lecture entitled "Reason for Hope" at the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, and in the same year demanded the
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end the use of medical research on animals and ensure more funding for alternative methods of medical research. She controversially described Edinburgh Zoo's new primate enclosure as a "wonderful facility" where monkeys "are probably better off han thoseliving in the wild in an area like Budongo, where one in six gets caught in a wire snare, and countries like Congo, where chimpanzees, monkeys and gorillas are shot for food commercially."Mike Wade
"Zoos are best hope, says Jane Goodall".
''The Times'', 20 May 2008. Retrieved 18 July 2008.
This was in conflict with Advocates for Animals' position on captive animals.Tim Walker

''The Daily Telegraph'', 23 May 2008. Retrieved 18 July 2008. "She's entitled to her opinion, but our position isn't going to change. We oppose the keeping of animals in captivity for entertainment."
In June that year, she resigned the presidency of the organisation which she had held since 1998, citing her busy schedule and explaining, "I just don't have time for them."Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
"Defending captivity".
''Science'', Vol. 320. no. 5881, p. 1269, 6 June 2008. Retrieved 18 July 2008.
Goodall is a patron of the population concern charity
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and is an ambassador for
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. In 2010, Goodall, through JGI, formed a coalition with a number of organizations such as the
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(WCS) and the
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(HSUS) and petitioned to list all chimpanzees, including those that are captive, as
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. In 2015, the U.S.
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(USFWS) announced that they would accept this rule and that all chimpanzees would be classified as endangered. In 2011, she became a patron of the Australian animal protection group
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. "I have for decades been concerned about factory farming, in part because of the tremendous harm inflicted on the environment, but also because of the shocking ongoing cruelty perpetuated on millions of sentient beings." In 2012, she took on the role of challenger for the Engage in Conservation Challenge with The DO School, formerly known as the D&F Academy. She worked with a group of aspiring social entrepreneurs to create a workshop to engage young people in conserving biodiversity, and to tackle a perceived global lack of awareness of the issue. In 2014, Goodall wrote to
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executives, criticizing the airline's continued transport of monkeys to laboratories. Goodall called the practice "cruel" and "traumatic" for the monkeys involved. The same year, Goodall also wrote to the
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(NIH) to criticize maternal deprivation experiments on baby monkeys in NIH laboratories. Prior to the 2015 UK general election, she endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the
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's
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. She is a critic of
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and signed a letter to Members of Parliament in 2015 opposing the
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prime minister
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's plan to amend the
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. In August 2019, Goodall was honoured for her contributions to science with a bronze sculpture in
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alongside nine other women, part of the Statues for Equality project. In 2020 she advocated for
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(mass damage or destruction of nature) to be made an international crime, stating “The concept of Ecocide is long overdue. It could lead to an important change in the way people perceive – and respond to – the current environmental crisis.” That same year, Goodall vowed to plant 5 million trees, part of the 1 trillion tree initiative founded by the
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. In 2021, Goodall called on the EU Commission to abolish caging of farm animals. In 2021, Goodall joined the Rewriting Extinction campaign to fight the climate and biodiversity crisis through comics. She is listed as a contributor to the book ''The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save the World'' which was released on 28 October 2021 by DK.


Opinions

Goodall is known to support the possibility that undiscovered species of primates may still exist today, including
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such as
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, Yeren and other types of
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. She has talked about this possibility in various interviews and debates. In 2012, when the ''Huffington Post'' asked her about it, Goodall replied: "I'm fascinated and would actually love them to exist," adding, "Of course, it's strange that there has never been a single authentic hide or hair of the Bigfoot, but I've read all the accounts."


Religion and spirituality

Goodall was raised in a Christian congregationalist family. As a young woman, she took night classes in
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. Her family were occasional churchgoers, but Goodall began attending more regularly as a teenager when the church appointed a new minister, Trevor Davies. "He was highly intelligent and his sermons were powerful and thought-provoking... I could have listened to his voice for hours... I fell madly in love with him... Suddenly, no one had to encourage me to go to church. Indeed, there were never enough services for my liking." Of her later discovery of the atheism and agnosticism of many of her scientific colleagues, Goodall wrote that " rtunately, by the time I got to Cambridge I was twenty-seven years old and my beliefs had already moulded so that I was not influenced by these opinions." In her 1999 book ''Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey'', Goodall describes the implications of a
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she had at
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in 1977: "Since I cannot believe that this was the result of chance, I have to admit anti-chance. And so I must believe in a guiding power in the universe – in other words, I must believe in God." When asked if she believes in God, Goodall said in September 2010: "I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I'm out in nature. It's just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me." When asked in the same year if she still considers herself a Christian, Goodall told ''the Guardian'' "I suppose so; I was raised as a Christian." and stated that she saw no contradiction between evolution and belief in God. In her foreword to the 2017 book ''The Intelligence of the Cosmos'' by Ervin Laszlo, a philosopher of science who advocates quantum consciousness theory, Goodall wrote: "we must accept that there is an Intelligence driving the process f evolution">evolution.html" ;"title="f evolution">f evolution that the Universe and life on Earth are inspired and in-formed by an unknown and unknowable Creator, a Supreme Being, a Great Spiritual Power."


Personal life

Goodall has married twice. On 28 March 1964, she married a Dutch nobleman, wildlife photographer Baron Hugo van Lawick, at Chelsea Old Church, London, and became known during their marriage as Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall. The couple had a son, Hugo Eric Louis (born 1967); they divorced in 1974. The following year, she married Derek Bryceson, a member of
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's parliament and the director of that country's
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s. Bryceson died of cancer in October 1980. Owing to his position in the Tanzanian government as head of the country's national park system, Bryceson could protect Goodall's research project and implement an embargo on tourism at Gombe. Goodall has stated that dogs are her favourite animal. Goodall has prosopagnosia, which makes it difficult to recognize familiar faces.


Criticism


Feeding stations

Many standard methods aim to avoid interference by observers, and in particular some believe that the use of feeding stations to attract Gombe chimpanzees has altered normal foraging and feeding patterns and
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ships. This argument is the focus of a book published by Margaret Power in 1991.Power, Margaret (1991). The Egalitarians – Human and Chimpanzee An Anthropological: View of Social Organization. Cambridge University Press. . It has been suggested that higher levels of aggression and conflict with other chimpanzee groups in the area were due to the feeding, which could have created the "wars" between chimpanzee social groups described by Goodall, aspects of which she did not witness in the years before artificial feeding began at Gombe. Thus, some regard Goodall's observations as distortions of normal chimpanzee behaviour. Goodall herself acknowledged that feeding contributed to aggression within and between groups, but maintained that the effect was limited to alteration of the intensity and not the nature of chimpanzee conflict, and further suggested that feeding was necessary for the study to be effective at all. Craig Stanford of the Jane Goodall Research Institute at the
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states that researchers conducting studies with no artificial provisioning have a difficult time viewing any social behaviour of chimpanzees, especially those related to inter-group conflict. Some studies, such as those by Crickette Sanz in the Goualougo Triangle ( Congo) and Christophe Boesch in the
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(
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), have not shown the aggression observed in the Gombe studies. However, other primatologists disagree that the studies are flawed; for example, Jim Moore provides a critique of Margaret Powers' assertions and some studies of other chimpanzee groups have shown aggression similar to that in Gombe even in the absence of feeding.


Plagiarism and ''Seeds of Hope''

On 22 March 2013,
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announced that Goodall's and co-author Gail Hudson's new book, ''Seeds of Hope'', would not be released on 2 April as planned due to the discovery of plagiarised portions. A reviewer for ''
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'' found unattributed sections that were copied from websites about organic tea and tobacco and an "amateurish astrology site", as well as from Wikipedia. Goodall apologised and stated, "It is important to me that the proper sources are credited, and I will be working diligently with my team to address all areas of concern. My goal is to ensure that when this book is released it is not only up to the highest of standards, but also that the focus be on the crucial messages it conveys." The book was released on 1 April 2014, after review and the addition of 57 pages of endnotes.


In popular culture


Gary Larson cartoon incident

One of
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's '' Far Side'' cartoons shows two chimpanzees grooming. One finds a blonde human hair on the other and inquires, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?" Goodall herself was in Africa at the time. The Jane Goodall Institute thought the cartoon was in bad taste and had its lawyers draft a letter to Larson and his distribution syndicate in which they described the cartoon as an "atrocity". They were stymied by Goodall herself: when she returned and saw the cartoon, she stated that she found the cartoon amusing.Larson, Gary. ''The Prehistory of the Far Side: a 10th-anniversary exhibit''. Kansas City, MO: Andrew and McNeel, 1989. . Since then, all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon have gone to the Jane Goodall Institute. Goodall wrote a preface to ''The Far Side Gallery 5'', detailing her version of the controversy, and the institute's letter was included next to the cartoon in the complete ''Far Side'' collection. She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals. In 1988, when Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania, he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.


Lego

On 3 March 2022, in celebration of Women's History Month and
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,
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issued set number 40530, ''A Jane Goodall Tribute'', depicting a Jane Goodall minifigure and three chimpanzees in an African forest scene.


Music

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' song "Jane", written in 1990, celebrates Goodall's life and work. It is the last track on Nicks' 1994 '' Street Angel'' album.


Awards and recognition

Goodall has received many honours for her environmental and humanitarian work, as well as others. She was named a
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in an Investiture held at
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in 2004. In April 2002, Secretary-General
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named Goodall a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Her other honours include the
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, the French
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, Medal of Tanzania, Japan's prestigious
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, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in
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, the Gandhi-King Award for Nonviolence and the Spanish
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. Goodall is also a member of the advisory board of ''
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'' magazine and a patron of
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(formerly the Optimum Population Trust). Goodall has received many tributes, honours, and awards from local governments, schools, institutions, and charities around the world. Goodall is honoured by
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with a plaque on the
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at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park, alongside a carving of her beloved David Greybeard, the original chimpanzee that approached Goodall during her first year at Gombe. She is a member of both the
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and the
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. In 2010,
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and Tim Reynolds held a benefit concert at DAR Constitution Hall in
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to commemorate "Gombe 50: a global celebration of Jane Goodall's pioneering chimpanzee research and inspiring vision for our future". ''
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'' magazine named Goodall as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019. In 2021, she received the
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. On 31 December 2021, Goodall was the guest editor of the
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programme. She chose
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to be presenter of Thought for the Day. In 2022, Dr. Goodall received the
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for her long-term study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. In April 2023, Goodall was made Officer in the
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in a ceremony in
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, the Netherlands. In October 2024, Dr. Goodall gave "A Speech for History" at
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. She delivered an optimistic message on conservation and the role that everyone can play in preserving our planet by educating youth and communities to protect and respect the natural world. In January 2025, Dr. Goodall was awarded the
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.


Works


Books

*1969 ''My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees'' Washington, DC:
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*1971 ''Innocent Killers'' (with H. van Lawick). Boston:
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; London: Collins *1971 ''In the Shadow of Man'' Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Collins. Published in 48 languages *1986 ''The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior'' Boston: Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press. Published also in Japanese and Russian. R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Technical, Scientific or Medical book of 1986, to Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press, Boston. The Wildlife Society (USA) Award for "Outstanding Publication in Wildlife Ecology and Management" *1990 ''Through a Window: 30 years observing the Gombe chimpanzees'' London:
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; Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Translated into more than 15 languages. 1991
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edition, UK.
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"Best" list among Nine Notable Books (Nonfiction) for 1991 *1991 ''Visions of Caliban'' (co-authored with Dale Peterson, PhD). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
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"Notable Book" for 1993.
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"Best Sci-Tech Book" for 1993 *1999 ''Brutal Kinship'' (with Michael Nichols). New York: Aperture Foundation *1999 ''Reason For Hope; A Spiritual Journey'' (with Phillip Berman). New York: Warner Books, Inc. Translated into Japanese and Portuguese *2000 ''40 Years At Gombe'' New York: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang *2000 ''Africa In My Blood'' (edited by Dale Peterson). New York: Houghton Mifflin Company *2001 ''Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters, the later years'' (edited by Dale Peterson). New York: Houghton Mifflin Company *2002 ''The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do To Care for the Animals We Love'' (with Marc Bekoff). San Francisco: Harper San Francisco *2005 ''Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating'' New York: Warner Books, Inc. *2009 ''Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink'' Grand Central Publishing *2013 ''Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants'' (with Gail Hudson) Grand Central Publishing *2021 ''The Book of Hope'', with Douglas Abrams and Gail Hudson,
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Children's books

*1972 ''Grub: The Bush Baby'' (with H. van Lawick). Boston: Houghton Mifflin *1988 ''My Life with the Chimpanzees'' New York: Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. Translated into French, Japanese and Chinese. Parenting's Reading-Magic Award for "Outstanding Book for Children," 1989 *1989 ''The Chimpanzee Family Book'' Saxonville, MA: Picture Book Studio; Munich: Neugebauer Press; London: Picture Book Studio. Translated into more than 15 languages, including Japanese and Swahili. The
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Award for the best children's book of 1989. Austrian state prize for best children's book of 1990. *1989 ''Jane Goodall's Animal World: Chimps'' New York: Macmillan *1989 ''Animal Family Series: Chimpanzee Family; Lion Family; Elephant Family; Zebra Family; Giraffe Family; Baboon Family; Hyena Family; Wildebeest Family'' Toronto: Madison Marketing Ltd *1994 ''With Love'', New York / London: North-South Books. Translated into German, French, Italian, and Japanese *1999 ''Dr. White'' (illustrated by Julie Litty). New York: North-South Books *2000 ''The Eagle & the Wren'' (illustrated by Alexander Reichstein). New York: North-South Books *2001: ''Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours'' New York:
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*2002 (Foreword) ''"Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," Said the Sloth'' by Eric Carle. Philomel Books *2004 ''Rickie and Henri: A True Story'' (with Alan Marks) Penguin Young Readers Group


Films

Goodall is the subject of more than 40 films: *1965 ''Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees''
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*1973 ''Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Wild Dogs of Africa'' with Hugo van Lawick *1975 ''Miss Goodall: The Hyena Story '' The World of Animal Behavior Series
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br>1979 version
for DiscoVision, not released for
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*1976 ''Lions of the Serengeti'' an episode of '' The World About Us'' on
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*1984: ''Among the Wild Chimpanzees'' National Geographic Special *1988 ''People of the Forest'' with Hugo van Lawick *1990 ''Chimpanzee Alert'' in the Nature Watch Series, Central Television *1990 ''The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall'' National Geographic Society. *1990 ''The Gombe Chimpanzees'' Bavarian Television *1995 ''Fifi's Boys'' for the Natural World series for the BBC *1996 ''Chimpanzee Diary'' for BBC2 Animal Zone *1997 ''Animal Minds'' for BBC *Goodall voiced herself in the animated TV series ''
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''. *2000 ''Jane Goodall: Reason For Hope''
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special produced by KTCA *2001 *2002 ''Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees'' (
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format), in collaboration with Science North *2005 ''Jane Goodall's Return to Gombe'' for
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*2006 ''Chimps, So Like Us''
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film nominated for 1990
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*2007 ''When Animals Talk, We Should Listen'' theatrical documentary feature co-produced by
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*2010 ''Jane's Journey'' theatrical documentary feature co-produced by
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*2012 ''
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'' theatrical nature documentary feature co-produced by
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*2017 '' Jane'' biographical documentary film
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Studios, in association with Public Road Productions. The film is directed and written by
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, music by
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*Zayed's 2018 ''Antarctic Lights'', Dr Jane featured in the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi film that screened on National Geographic-Abu Dhabi and won a World Medal at the New York Film and TV Awards. *2019 ''Exploring Hans Hass'' Dr Jane Goodall featured in the biographical documentary film about the legendary diving pioneer and filmmaker Hans Hass *2020 ''Jane Goodall: The Hope'', biographical documentary film,
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Studios, produced by Lucky 8 *2023 '' Jane Goodall: Reasons for Hope is an''
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format documentary about successful projects to restore earth's wildlife habitat, animals, birds and environment.


See also

* Animal Faith * USC Jane Goodall Research Center *
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* Dian Fossey, the trimate who studied gorillas until her murder *
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, the trimate who dedicated herself to
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study * Steven M. Wise * Washoe *
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*
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References


External links


The Jane Goodall Institute official website
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Jane Goodall
interviewed by Alyssa McDonald in July 2010 for the ''
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Jane Goodall – Overpopulation in the Developing World
at '' Fora TV''
Lecture transcript and video of Goodall's speech
at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the
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, April 2008
Jane Goodall extended film interview with transcripts for the 'Why Are We Here?' documentary series

A Conversation with Jane Goodall
(audio interview)
"On Being" radio interview
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