Dame Jane Goodall

By jaxon.hall

  • Behavior of Chimpanzees

    Ethologists had long believed that chimps were exclusively vegetarian. Goodall witnessed chimps stalking, killing, and eating large insects, birds, and some bigger animals, including baby baboons and bush backs (small antelopes). On one occasion, she recorded acts of cannibalism. She is credited with making the first recorded observations of chimpanzees eating meat and using and making tools.

  • Chimpanzee behavior

    November 4th 1960 Jane Goodall observed 2 chimpanzees David Greybeard and Goliath making different tools to take out termites from their mounds to get food to eat. They would get a thin branch from a tree and stick it in the mound until little termites come out. Once the branch was covered in termites they would lick them off the branch.

  • Cambridge University

    In 1962 Jane Goodall is accepted into Cambridge university as a Ph.D canidate.

  • National geographic

    In 1763 national geographic decides to sponsor Jane Goodalls work and sends a photographer to take not of Janes life in Gombe.

  • Jane Goodalls son

    Jane Goodall has a son with her husband Van Lawick

  • Ph.D

    In 1965 Jane Goodall earns her Ph.D in ethology the study of a animals behavior

  • Jane Goodalls divorce

    Jane goodall and her husband divorced in 1975

  • New husband

    Jane Goodall finds a new love and decides to marry him Derek Byrceson

  • Wildlife research institute

    In 1977 founded the Jane Goodall institute for wild life research.

  • Jane Goodals work as a activist

    Since the release of her book, Jane went to a large conference in Chicago in 1986 that brought different scientists together from everywhere in the world to discover chimps. While at this conference, Jane developed a concern for their shrinking numbers and disappearing natural habitat, as well as the inhumane treatment of chimpanzees in captivity. Since then Jane has been focused on the rights of animals and helping them survive.

  • Roots and shoots

    In 1991 Jane Goodall and 16 Tanzanian school students founded a roots and shoots program which teaches kids about how to treat the environment.