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Day 14 - Jane Goodall
Mar. 14th, 2018 06:19 pmJane Goodall
At the age of 26, Jane Goodall was in Africa, staying with a friend, when she called up Louis Leakey just to have a chat about animals. Leakey, who was looking for someone to study chimpanzees, had other ideas and the rest, they say is history.
Jane became a secretary but Leakey sent her to Tanzania then to London to study primates. Jane returned to Africa with her mother and two years later(1962), she went Cambridge to study for her PhD. She had neither bachelor’s degree nor master’s degree but earned the PhD. in 1965.
She returned to Tanzania and studied chimps at the Gombe Reserve and began to write and report about them. She learned much in her close contact that was previously unknown.
Jane lived with the chimps, gave them names instead of numbers and did her research in a rather unconventional way. Some have criticized her work as unscientific and not objective enough but she is still one the undisputable experts on chimpanzee behavior. Her work among the chimps has priven to be one of the only ways to genuinely observe their native behavior.
She has written a large number of books for adult and chidlren on many subjects, mostly to do with nature and conservancy and many about her beloved chimps. She also has received many awards for her work with the chimps and with nature conservation. You can find a full list of both here .
The Jane Goodall Archive is at Duke University here in North Carolina. Her voluminous notes are digitized and kept there.
You can read jane’s 1017 message for peace at her website: http://news.janegoodall.org/2017/09/20/dr-jane-goodalls-message-for-peace/
It’s certainly worth a look!
At the age of 26, Jane Goodall was in Africa, staying with a friend, when she called up Louis Leakey just to have a chat about animals. Leakey, who was looking for someone to study chimpanzees, had other ideas and the rest, they say is history.
Jane became a secretary but Leakey sent her to Tanzania then to London to study primates. Jane returned to Africa with her mother and two years later(1962), she went Cambridge to study for her PhD. She had neither bachelor’s degree nor master’s degree but earned the PhD. in 1965.
She returned to Tanzania and studied chimps at the Gombe Reserve and began to write and report about them. She learned much in her close contact that was previously unknown.
Jane lived with the chimps, gave them names instead of numbers and did her research in a rather unconventional way. Some have criticized her work as unscientific and not objective enough but she is still one the undisputable experts on chimpanzee behavior. Her work among the chimps has priven to be one of the only ways to genuinely observe their native behavior.
She has written a large number of books for adult and chidlren on many subjects, mostly to do with nature and conservancy and many about her beloved chimps. She also has received many awards for her work with the chimps and with nature conservation. You can find a full list of both here .
The Jane Goodall Archive is at Duke University here in North Carolina. Her voluminous notes are digitized and kept there.
You can read jane’s 1017 message for peace at her website: http://news.janegoodall.org/2017/09/20/dr-jane-goodalls-message-for-peace/
It’s certainly worth a look!
