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Hi ! I am Jane Goodall. I was born in London, England on April 3rd, 1934 into a middle-class British family. My father was a engineer and my mother was a successful novelist. My grades were average in school, but I preferred to be outdoors and learning about animals. I knew when I was young I wanted to move to Africa and study animals. |
When I was only eighteen I completed secondary school and I began working to try to save up money to take a trip to Africa. When I was twenty-three years old I finally moved to Africa. In 1957 I sailed to Mombasa on the East African coast, where I met my future boss Louis Leakey. Even though I never attended college, Leakey saw that I was unbiased and hired me. |
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Later on, Leakey decided to let me study chimpanzees in Africa. Leakey thought that a woman would be more patient than a male observer. In July 1960, I set out for the first time for Gombe National Park to study chimpanzees in southeastern Africa. Even though I had little training I believed I could make a successful study. |
At first I thought I might stay and study these chimpanzees for one year, but I ended up staying more than two decades. In my early study days I worked with native guides, I spent long hours working hard to gain the chimpanzees trust. Since I gained the chimpanzees trust, I could now sit among them. |
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I also realized not much later that chimpanzees organized themselves into complex social structures. The chimps were loving to one another and hunted meat just like humans. They also used simple tools to make living in their environment easier. At the time human beings were thought to be the only animals that used tools. I was able to prove this belief wrong. |
In 1962 Leakey set me up to work on a doctorate in England. In 1965 I became the eighth person to ever receive a doctorate from Cambridge without having a college degree. I finally found love in 1964, when I married Hugo Van Lawick. He was a photographer who had come to Gombe at Leakey’s invitation to take picture for a magazine. |
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I ended up having one child, also named Hugo, although we called him Grub. In the later years of my life I turned my attention to the problem of captive chimpanzees. I started working on improving conditions for zoo animals. For my efforts in contributing to the study of chimpanzees, |
I was awarded with the following: Gold Medal of Conservation from San Diego Zoological Society, the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize, and the National Geographic Society Centennial Award. |
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In 2002 I was awarded with the third Gandhi King award for Non-Violence At the United Nations. Most of my work now is carried on by the Jane Goodall Institute Of Wildlife Research. I don’t spend much time in Africa now but I give speeches around the world and I travel at least 300 days a year. |
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