Jane Goodall
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall or known as Jane Goodall, born April 3,1934 in London,England. She is a British ethologist, she is known for doing a long term research on chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.
She was interested in animal behaviour at an early age, which she left school at age eighteen. She worked as a secretary and a film production assistant, until she gained passage to Africa. When she was in Africa, she became Louis Leakey, a paleontologist and anthropologist ,assistant. Her assistance with Leakey led to her establishment in June 1960 in a camp at Gombe Stream Game Reserve (now a national park),she observed the chimpanzees behaviour in the region. She married a Dutch photographer, Hugo van Lawick,who was sent to Tanzania to film her work.Later on, they had a son, Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick, but divorced in 1974.
Later on, she got awarded by the University of Cambridge in 1965 in Ph.D in ethology. While going the research, she corrected a lot of misunderstanding about chimpanzees. For example; animal are omnivores,they are capable of making tools and using them. Goodall wrote many books and articles of her work. The book, the Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behaviour, she summarized her research with …show more content…
Later on they had a son together, Hugo Eric Louis (born 1967) and divorced in 1974. That following year, she married Derek Bryceson, he was a member of Tanzania and was the director of the country national parks, in October 1980 he died of cancer. When he was still alive, he protected Goodall’s research project. When she was asked if she believed in God, in September 2010 she said, “I don’t have idea who or what is God, but I do believe in some spiritual power, i feel it particularly when I’m out in nature, It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is, i feel it, and it’s enough for
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall or known as Jane Goodall, born April 3,1934 in London,England. She is a British ethologist, she is known for doing a long term research on chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.
She was interested in animal behaviour at an early age, which she left school at age eighteen. She worked as a secretary and a film production assistant, until she gained passage to Africa. When she was in Africa, she became Louis Leakey, a paleontologist and anthropologist ,assistant. Her assistance with Leakey led to her establishment in June 1960 in a camp at Gombe Stream Game Reserve (now a national park),she observed the chimpanzees behaviour in the region. She married a Dutch photographer, Hugo van Lawick,who was sent to Tanzania to film her work.Later on, they had a son, Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick, but divorced in 1974.
Later on, she got awarded by the University of Cambridge in 1965 in Ph.D in ethology. While going the research, she corrected a lot of misunderstanding about chimpanzees. For example; animal are omnivores,they are capable of making tools and using them. Goodall wrote many books and articles of her work. The book, the Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behaviour, she summarized her research with …show more content…
Later on they had a son together, Hugo Eric Louis (born 1967) and divorced in 1974. That following year, she married Derek Bryceson, he was a member of Tanzania and was the director of the country national parks, in October 1980 he died of cancer. When he was still alive, he protected Goodall’s research project. When she was asked if she believed in God, in September 2010 she said, “I don’t have idea who or what is God, but I do believe in some spiritual power, i feel it particularly when I’m out in nature, It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is, i feel it, and it’s enough for