Jane Goodall

  • Jane Goodall's First Discovery about chimps

    Jane Goodall's first discovery was groundbreaking. Chimpanzees were assumed to be vegetarian, but Jane Goodall found out that Chimpanzees eat meat. She found a group of chimps gathered around eating a bush pig. Later, she also found out the chimpanzee's hunting process, Chimps attack in a group and chase down there prey.
  • Jane goes to Tanzania

    In 1960, Jane Goodall was hired by Louis Leaky to go to the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve. She was hired to study the chimpanzee's behavior in the wild.
  • Homosapiens: "Man the Toolmaker"

    Another on Jane Goodall's was that Chimpanzees make tools. When she observed the David Greybeard and Goliath, which are chimps, she found out that they made tools to extract termites from their mounds.
  • Jane Goodall's most important discovery

    In Jane Goodall's trip to the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, she found out the here most important discovery. She found out that the Chimpanzees were in a Tribal War. This Tribal War lasted 4 years and it was between the Kahama splinter group and main Kasakela group. If the chimps from one of these groups meet a solitary male from another chimpanzee tribe, they will chase, attack and, given the opportunity, kill him.
  • The Jane Goodall Institution is founded

    Jane Goodall creates her institution with her name on it to continue her research on chimps and to expand efforts on chimpanzee protection, conservation, and environmental education.
  • Jane Goodall becomes and activist

    Jane Goodall attends the first ‘Understanding Chimpanzees’ conference in Chicago. She then stops her research and observation about chimpanzees and focuses more on how to conserve the chimpanzee's habitats