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    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…

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    Without her effort and attention to detail we would not have been able to come close enough, long enough, really understand how chimps live in their own environment. “Dr. Goodall’s research at Gombe Stream is best known to the scientific community for challenging two long-standing beliefs of the day. That only humans could construct and use tools, and that chimpanzees were vegetarians. While observing one chimpanzee feeding at a termite mound, she watched him repeatedly place stalks of grass…

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    Jane Goodall is not only an anthropologist, but she is also a successful author. She has won numerous awards and is acknowledged nationwide for being the first person to observe chimpanzees in their natural habitat. She discovered their behavior up close and also formed valuable relationships with the chimpanzees. In the Shadow of Man Jane starts from the beginning of her success and recounts her first experiences in Gombe, Africa. Jane Goodall begins the story by discussing her fascination…

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    Jane Goodall is a brilliant scientist. She is a primatologist and anthropologist. She became famous because of her groundbreaking findings of chimpanzees. At a very young age she became entranced by animals. She dedicates her life to helping others. On April 3rd, 1934 Dame Jane Goodall was born to Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall and Vanna Joseph Morris-Goodall. Jane Goodall was born in London, England and lived there until the late 1950’s. Jane Goodall was interested in animals since she was…

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    Jane Goodall started her first semester at Cambridge in 1962, which she continues to go to, and she graduates Uplands in the year of 1952. “ At the end of Goodall’s third term at Cambridge in 1964, she and Van Lawick met in Washington D.C., to present a film lecture on the chimpanzees of Gombe to members of the National Geographic Society.” - Jane Goodall book by Meachum (69) When Jane Goodall met Van Lawick, she didn’t know she would marry him. After Cambridge University she went to Stanford…

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    In the early 1960’s Jane Goodall traveled to the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania to study chimpanzee development and their social interactions. During her early years of study, Goodall discovered much about the social complexity of chimpanzee societies and their hierarchies, along with their development which is, for the most part, very similar to the development of our species. Throughout the book, Jane Goodall describes the many challenges she faced trying to get the protective chimpanzees…

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    Wild Chimpanzees Essay

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    on the grass and watching chimpanzees through binoculars; she saw an old chimpanzee male who did not run away from her; it was Jane’s first step and understanding that her trip to Tanzania was not in vain. The closer she approached chimpanzees; better she could investigate. While she was investigating them, she realized that they are one group-a community and she saw that their personality is like human beings. Jane saw interesting facts about chimpanzees that they use tools and take out the…

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    behaviors are not triggered by similar feelings,” explained Jane (Kowalski). Jane Goodall was born on April 3, 1934 in London, UK and is an ethologist, or studies animal behaviors under its natural conditions. The British ethologist is still living today at the age of 81 (Jane Goodall). Goodall is a prominent scientist within the biological community. When Jane first began her 50 years of research in Gombe, she had no scientific credentials, not even an undergrad degree. She is a high school…

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    Jane Goodall Jane Goodall’s study of the chimpanzees really impacted the way we think about different species. She has been so devoted to learning everything she possibly could about chimpanzees. She has lived with them for a couple years. Goodall didn’t have a perfect child hood she had some setbacks in her young life but that didn’t stop her to become a scientist and discover everything she has done. She has found out so many cool and important…

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    Jane Goodall is a very influential person. She was born on April 3, 1934 in London, United Kingdom to Mortimer Herbert Goodall and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph. She is currently eighty years old and has a younger sister named Judy who is four years younger than her. She has discovered many things about chimpanzees and devoted her life to them. She has gotten married twice. Once to Hugo Van Lawick on March 28, 1964. He was a Dutch wild life photographer. Jane had a son named Hugo Eric Louis born in…

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