Renowned Primatologist Jane Goodall Dead At 91

Jane Goodall Institute announced on social media, the world’s most famous primatologist Jane Goodall died on Wednesday at the age of 91.

According to the Institute, Goodall died of “for natural reasons” when he was in California as a part of the United States’s speech tour.

“Dr. Goodall’s discovery as an ethologist began the science revolution, and he was a tireless advocate for the preservation and restoration of our natural world” He said in a statement.

In the spring of 1957, Goodall, a 22 -year -old secretary with high school education, Native Rode on a ship from England to Kenya. His work at a local Natural History Museum took him to the Reserve of the Rain Forest in the Gombe National Park (in today’s Tanzania), which hosted one of the largest chimpanzee populations in Africa.

He immediately felt connection with chimpanzees. For the following decades, he spent almost all his time on the reserve – he conducted research that reshapes our understanding of the chimpanzees and even what to be human.

Goodall was born on April 3, 1934 in London, businessman Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall and novelist Margaret Myfanwe Joseph. He grew up in Bournemouth, a middle -class holiday resort on the southern coast of England. Started in primary school Reading Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan novels and Hugh Lofting’s “Doctor Destitle’s Story” and the idea of ​​traveling to Africa.

Goodall’s parents could not send him to university, so after graduating from high school, he worked as a two -year secretary to save money for a three -week passage to Africa. Two months after arriving, he met the famous Paleontologist Louis Leakey, whose studies appeared in Africa instead of Asia. Leakey recognized Goodall’s intelligence and hired him at the Nature History History Museum in Nairobi and planned to send it to the rainforest to examine chimpanzees.

During his first few months in Gombe, chimpanzees were cautious and refused to come in a few hundred meters. But Goodall insisted, used the bananas as a attraction for chimpanzees, and eventually they were comfortable enough to let them observe them at close range.

Goodall has begun to give them individual names – we are not extremely unusual in an area where the standard application is to assign the number of animals. And as he approached the chimpanzees, he discovered that people behaved much more similar to the rich, complex social structure than everyone was suspicious. Similar to people, he believed that they might be compassionate and violent, resourceful and fun.

Goodall has done what is still considered as the most important discovery of chimpanzee behavior In October 1960. A man he called David Greybeard by looking at his binoculars saw a chimpanzee Paste a branch in the Termit colony And then he uses it to get the thermites he eats. Before this moment, scientists always believed that people were the only creatures that could make and use vehicles on Earth.

In fact, it was not known that chimpanzees eaten meat. Goodalli later observed Chimpanzees hunting hunting and foodIncluding other monkeys and even rarely other chimpanzees.

In 1962, Goodall registered at his doctoral degree. At the University of Cambridge, the program is becoming one of a handful of people who will do so without a degree. While there, he released his breakthrough on the vehicle using chimpanzee In the nature of prestigious scientific journal.

After receiving his degree in 1965, Goodall returned to Gombe to continue his work with chimpanzees. In 1967, he published his first book “My friends Wild Chimpanzees .. Since then, he has published more than a dozen books for adults and a few books for children. One of these books was criticized for taking the wrong step without referring to the “seeds of hope” of 2013, which were removed from several other sources. Goodall has been attributed to taking sloppy grades. He then issued a review.

Goodall in 1977, Jane Goodall Institute To encourage protection and development programs in Africa. There are worldwide projects, including youth -oriented programs in about 100 countries.

As Goodall’s reputation grew, he became an Open Oburable advocate for animal rights and protection. It is included in many organizations working in the name of better treatment of animals.

“You cannot share your life with a dog as I do in Bournemouth or a cat, and you cannot perfectly know that animals have personalities, minds and emotions” He told The Guardian in 2010. “You know, and I think each of these scientists knew, but they wouldn’t talk about it because they couldn’t prove it.”

In an interview with HuffPost in 2021, he reflected it to the world’s management and expressed that we could lean more to work towards the mutual beneficial target of environmental protection.

This mind is ultimately what distinguishes us from chimpanzees, he said, and allows us to plan in cooperation for the future:

Chimpanzees have a very brutal, dark, war -like side. It also has a loving and devoted side. Just like us. However, the biggest difference is the explosive development of our mind, which I think is triggered by the fact that we have developed this conversation with words. Thus, we can give people information about things that are not available. We can make plans for the distant future. To discuss a problem, we can bring people from different disciplines together. Because of these words. Now we have developed a moral code with our words. And we know what to do and not to do it perfectly.

But there is this kind of innate regionalism that leads to nationalism. This is in our genes. But we should be able to get out of this because of this mind. We have vehicles. We have a language. We have scientific technology. If we make the right decisions every day and our billions do this, we understand that we can move in the right direction. But are we going to do this on time? I don’t know.

In 1964, Goodall married Dutch nature photographer Baron Hugo Van Lawick. Two of them had a son Hugo in 1967 and divorced in 1974. In 1975, he married Derek Bryceson, the president of Tanzania’s national parks. He died of cancer in 1980.

Sara Bondioli contributed to reporting.