1. Jill pruetz
By: Elaina Meininger

2. Childhood
-Jill was born on December 15,1965 in
Yoakum,Texas
-Jill grew up in a small town with a middle
class family
-Jill never really wanted anything she just
loved her life she did want a horse, but she got
to ride her cousins horses sometimes.
-Jill liked to play outside as a child
-Jill always loved animals, she grew up with
cats and dogs

3. Jill Pruetz

4. Jill as a young adult
-Jill took an anthropology class in
college and that is what inspired JIll in
archaeology and primatology
-Jill worked in belize,Peru, Kenya, Costa
Rica, Panama, and Nicaragua as a
young adult
-Jill did field work and then she got
hooked
-Jill went to volunteer with chimpanzees
and she said that she....

5. Jill as a young adult
continued............
...would explore chimpanzees one day
and then she ultimately did
-Jill says that one of the things that
changed her life was doing fieldwork in
belize
-Jill went to college at Southwest Texas
State University
-Jill graduated college with B.A in
Anthropology and Sociology
-Jill ran cross country and track

6. Chimpanzee

7. Timeline of Jill's life
Born 1965 Yoakum, South Texas
-
-Graduated Yoakum High School 1984
-Attended Southwest Texas State University
(1984-1989) and graduated with a B.A. in
Anthropology and a B.A. in Sociology (ran
cross-country and track in college)
-Worked as research assistant at Michael
Keeling Center in Bastrop, TX with captive
chimps.

8. Timeline of Jill's life
continued....
-Attended University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign (1990-1999) and graduated with a
Ph.D. In Anthropology
-Worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Miami
University, Department Zoology (1999-2000).
Surveyed chimp sites in Senegal.
-Started work in Anthropology department at
Iowa State University (2001-present). Started
research at Fongoli, Senegal chimpanzee site
(ongoing)!

9. Jill Pruetz

10. Jill's thoughts
-Jill always loved the idea of going to Africa
and to explore wild animals, she feels that it is
more free in Africa and people aren't the
controllers of nature
-When Jill was a little girl she thought the only
way in terms of a career with working with
animals was to either to be a veterinarian or a
rancher

11. Jill Pruetz

12. Jill as an adult
- When Jill was an adult she started to study
animals but ever since 2001 she has been
studying chimpanzees
-Jill as an adult returned a baby chimpanzee
back to its mother
- Jill has one nephew and 2 identical twin
nieces, 2 dogs in the United States and 3 dogs
and 1 cat in Africa!
-Jill is not married because it would interfere
with her exploring

13. Jill Pruetz with a chimpanzee
skull

14. how Jill's exploring has
changed the world
- Jill introduced people to the amazing savanna
chimpanzees. That she studies in Fongoli, so she
was really just a voice for them in a way. They
have always been out there and doing some
pretty amazing things-like hunting other
animals with "spear"

15. Difference between Savanna chimpanzees and
deep forest Chimpanzees

16. Life changing moments of jill
-One of the things that changed Jill's life was going
to the field in Belize to do archeology she realized
that, that was what she wanted to do
-Another life changing moment was when she
started working with chimpanzees she knew that
she wanted to work with chimps the rest of her life
- One of the most life changing moments for Jill
was when she got to confiscate a baby chimpanzee
named Aimee and return Aimee to her mother. Jill
says,"It was one of the best moments of my life
returning Aimee back to its mother."

17. The baby Chimpanzee that jill
brought back to its mother

18. Evolution

19. Jill's Studies
-Jill noticed that chimpanzees make,and use
spears out of sticks to hunt bushbabies
-Jill recorded 37 tool type hunting attempts on
bushbabies. Jill noticed that it happens more
often in the beginning of the rainy season at
Fongoli, Africa
-Jill has studied that chimpanzees have
different calls for things.For example, when
they are surprised by something they will call
out a noise compared to when they are happy.

20. Chimpanzee using a spear

21. The End
Questions or comments??