![]() Jane Goodall, a state-of-the-art exhibition on view at NHM now through April 17, 2022. Goodall’s scientific insights and her transformation into an activist and global icon at Becoming Jane: The Evolution of Dr. It’s up to each of us to make a difference for incredible species like the chimpanzee and all life on Earth.Įxplore all of Dr. Goodall also founded the Jane Goodall Institute to protect these endangered beings and their forest homes. You can learn more about this work hereįrom scientist to activist, Dr. Research at Gombe is now home to the longest-running wild chimpanzee study in the world – over 60 years – and growing! Gombe is also home to an extraordinary number of other researchers and studies, including on hybrid monkeys (a rare phenomenon), and one of the longest-running studies on wild baboons. One of the first and most significant discoveries made by Jane Goodall was that chimpanzees hunt for and eat meat. Chimpanzees hunt alone or in groups of up to thirty-five individuals. ![]() However, Goodall observed them actively hunting, killing and eating various prey and it became known that they were omnivorous. the Jane Goodall Institute, Liberias Forestry Development Authority. Goodall’s living legacy of scientific findings and innovations lives on through the Jane Goodall Institute. Until the 1960’s when primatoligist Jane Goodall was studying chimpanzees, it was believed that these animals were strictly vegetarian. Chimps in Liberia face threats from hunting, agriculture, logging, and mining. JANE GOODALL: Well, I would say that unless we really, really intensify our efforts, and that does mean raising more money, within 10 to 15 years, significant populations of chimps would have. It’s a very blurry line, and it’s getting more blurry all the time.”ĭr. ![]() Goodall uncovered our similarities long before the geneticists, expressing this essential fact as only she can: “Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It became clear that chimpanzees are much more similar to us than previously thought. We now know that chimpanzees share 98.6 % of our DNA, making them our closest living relatives, but through careful observation, Dr. Jane described chimpanzee social life, family bonds, politics, and hunting. ![]()
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