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Born and curiosity in the childhood
She was born on April 3, 1934 in London,UK. now she is 84 years and she is living in London, England.
The first observation of Jane is that when she was 4 years old, Jane spent the holidays in a country house, and there she wanted to know how she made chickens to lay an egg. She spent four hours crouched inside the chicken coop to be able to capture that moment while her mother looked for her, desperate -
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Her family
Her father's name was Mortimer Morris-Goodall and he worked as businessman and her mother's name was Margaret Myfanwe Morris-goodall and she worked as a novelist author. She was married twice, with Derek Bryceson and Hugo Van Lawick. And she also had a son named Hugo that he died when he was 65 years old. -
Who is she
She is a british primatologist and anthropologist. Jane is the best known about the chimpanzees and she past her live watching her behaviour. She wants to make a better world and protect the habits and the forests of all over the world. -
She carried out a research about chimpanzees
When she was 23 years old, the famous anthropologist Louis, hired her as his personal assistant. He send her to Tanzania to start a research about the chimpanzees that lasted for 6 months. The results of the investigation were quite interesting, she learned a lot of the chimpanzees. -
what has she discovered
She discovered that the chimpanzees are animals very clever that they are able to make their own tools. She also discovered that they are not vegetarian, they also eat meat. She says that the chimpanzees sometimes have aggressive behaviour, like humans. -
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Other things she did
She also wrote some articles and books about the curiosities of the chimpanzees. She wrote In the Shadow of Man, The Chimpanzees of Gombe, and 40 Years at Gombe. She has spent the rest of his live protecting the chimpanzees and her habits from all over the world. -
found institut
In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute (IJG), which supports Gombe's research, and of which she is t
he global leader, in an effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. With 19 offices around the world, the IJG is highly recognized for its innovative and community-focused conservation and development programs in Africa. The organization now has more than 10,000 groups in more than 100 countries. -
Activism
Goodall is the former president of Advocates for Animals, Goodall is vegetarian, she advocates this diet for ethical, environmental and health reasons. Goodall also said: "Thousands of people who say" love "animals, sit once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures that have been treated with very little respect and kindness only to create more meat. -
Prizes
The year 2002 of april she recieved the called of a courier of united states for the peace for the general secretary of the Kofi Annan united nations.
In 2003, he was awarded with the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Research for his studies on chimpanzees in freedom and for his firm defense of reconciling human development with the protection of wildlife in Africa.
In 2015 he won the Catalonia International Prize. -
