What Are Jane Goodall's Achievements

Jane Goodall is universally known as one of the most prominent naturalist alive today. According to Anderson, Jane Goodall is a pioneer in the field study of chimpanzees (780). She is also well known as the mother of the chimps. Unfortunately, the public often tends to recognize her accomplishments related to her active running for the wellbeing of the chimps. However, her trademarks pertain to loving, caring, and embracing also applies to her strong conviction to corroborate the underprivileged children around the world. Although Dr. Goodall’s passion initiated from the love for animals, her accomplishments are far-reaching. This essay intends to show how Dr. Goodall’s life started and how it has led to her current goals and achievements. The epic journey of Dr. Goodall sprouted in London on the date of her birth, April 3, 1934. She spent her childhood with her mother, engineer father, four years apart younger sister named Judy, and nanny; not to mention, her family raised a bull terrier named “Peggy” (Goodall 8). To Goodall, Peggy was probably an important motive force which drove Goodall to adore animals and passionately work and study them as her occupation. According to Goodall and Berman, Dr. Goodall and Judy developed their personality and their respect for animals by learning the …show more content…
Her enthusiasm towards the chimps was evidently revealed through her means of observing and studying them. According to one of her book, My Life with the Chimpanzees, Dr. Goodall states that during her early phase of the study, she and her research team had to be patient even to locate where the chimps were (60). When she was able to undertake the observation more safely, Goodall tried her best to commune with the chimps by even climbing up the tree to sleep with them