Jane Goodall dead at 91: Primatologist passes away peacefully in California while on tour
World -renowned primatologist Jane Goodall died at the age of 91 during the US tour.
The legendary protection expert died for natural reasons while staying in California, the Jane Goodall Institute confirmed a mission on Facebook on Wednesday.
“The Jane Goodall Institute learned that this morning on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, the UN Peace Ambassador and the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, Dr. Jane Goodall DBE died for natural reasons.”
“ He was in California as part of the speech tour in the United States.
‘As an ethologist of D Goodall, his discoveries transformed science and was an irrelevant advocate for the protection and restoration of the natural world.’
Dr. Goodall is known for his groundbreaking work with chimpanzees that began in 1960 when he went to the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.
Seventeen years later, he founded the Jane Goodall Institute to support research in Gombe Park. It works to protect species and supports youth projects that aim to benefit animals and the environment.
Primatologist Jane Goodall died for natural reasons at the age of 91. He was depicted with a chimpanzee in his arms in 1995
Goodall, born in London in 1934, grew up in Middle -class Bournemouth and said that the idea of becoming a scientist as a young girl was almost unthinkable.
“ There was no idea of being a scientist because the girls were not scientists in those days. And in fact there were no men who lived wild there. ‘
So Goodall was inspired by fiction and developed two great passions: animals and Africa.
Goodall also thanked her mother novelist Margaret Myfanwe Joseph by encouraging her to make a career in the field of male -dominated primatology.
He said, ‘I bought my love of Africa from Dr Dneditle books and African love from his novels of animal and Tarzan. ‘I remember that my mother took me to her first Tarzan movie and drowned in tears.’
Dr. Goodall was only 26 years old when traveling to Tanzania with a book and a pair of binoculars.
Goodall began to meet his favorite creatures, which began to work for 60 years of groundbreaking to save them from extinction.
It continues to be a full -time primatologist and anthropologist, and is considered one of the leading experts in the world’s chimpanzees.
Goodall’s father, then his early love for the primates developed, gave him a toy chimpanzee as a young girl instead of a toy bear named Jubilee.
Goodall was depicted in 2004 with Nana Şempanze at the Magdeburg Zoo in East Germany.
Goodall went to UPLANDS School, an independent school in Polale. He left in 1952, but he couldn’t afford to go to university, so he worked as a secretary at Oxford University for several years.
In May 1956, his friend Clo Mange invited Goodall to his family’s farm in Kenya emphasis. Mange encouraged to contact Louis Leaky with a remarkable archaeologist and paleontologist and began to work as a 23 -year -old secretary.
Goodall went to Gombe National Park to read chimpanzees in 1960, while Leakey chose the other two female researchers Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas.
Three are known as Trimates or Leakey Angels. In Gombe, Jane was based on all kinds of natural threats: malaria, parasites, snakes, storms.
In 1962, Leakey organized a fund for Goodall to go to Cambridge University to study a doctor.
He was only eighth in history to join the university without competence, and he said in 2020 it was his most proud success.
Leakey thought that Goodall would make a perfect researcher with an irregular and impartial mind by the theory.
In January 2025, the protectionist Jane Goodall was presented by the former president Joe Biden with the presidential medal, the highest civil dignity of the country.
Goodall (depicted last Wednesday) was accepted as the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees.
This unusual approach to primatology has become the key to its success. Instead of numbered the chimpanzees he worked, he gave them loving names such as Fifi and David Greybeard.
He noticed his unique and individual personalities, an unusual ideas at that time, ‘He found not only people who have personality, who have the ability to feel emotions such as rational thought and joy and sadness’.
He also observed behaviors such as hugs, kisses and even tickling. His studies kept a mirror to our own species, and suggested that many human behavior, once thought to be unique, may have been inherited from our ancestors.
It has led him to develop a close bond with chimpanzees and become the only person who has been accepted to the chimpanzee society to date.
