2. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
• Valerie Jane Morris Goodall was born on April 3rd of
1934 in London, England.
• She’s a primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and
UN Messenger of Peace.
• She’s considered to be the world’s foremost expert on
chimpanzees.
• She has been married two times. The first time with
Hugo van Lawick and they had a son, Hugo Eric Louis.
And the second time with Derek Bryceson. Both
marriages were difficult.
3. KEY FACTS IN HER LIFE
• She studied for 55 years the social and family
interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream
National Park, Tanzania.
• She’s the founder of the Jane Goodall institute and
the Roots & Shoots program.
• She has served on the board of the Nonhuman Rights
Project since its founding in 1996.
4. SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES RELATED
WITH CHIMPANZEES
• She discovered that chimpanzees could use “tools”, a
characteristic that in that time was thinked it was only unique
of humans. She discovered this when she observed a
chimpanzee using a stick to “fishing” termites in a hole.
• She discovered that chimpanzees weren’t only vegetarians.
They also ate meat. She observed that they hunted in groups
and that they usually hunt small primates such as the colobus
monkey. She also observed that they share the prey equally
between them .
• She discovered a tendency of agression between different
chimpanzee troops. Goodall observed condutes of
cannibalism from the dominant females to the baby
chimpanzees, for maintain their dominance.
5. ENVIROMENTAL ACTIVISM
• Goodall is the former president of “Advocates for
Animals”, an organisation based in Edinburgh,
Scotland, that campaigns against the use of
animals in medical research, zoos, farming and
sport.
• She’s a patron of population concern charity
“Population Matters”, and is a currently an
ambassador for “Disneynature”.
• In 2011, she became a patron of Australian
protection group “Voiceless”, the animal
protection institute.
6. ROOTS & SHOOTS
• Jane Goodall founded “Roots & Shoots” in
1991.
• She founded it with the goal of bringing
together youth from preschool to university
age to work on environmental, conservation
and humanitarian issues.
• The organization has local chapters in 132
countries , with 8000 local groups and 100000
young people involved.
7. JANE GOODALL PRESENT ACTIVITY
• In the present, Jane Goudall is a very
important and busy activitist in favour of the
nature’s rights.
• She travel all around the world trying to make
aware people of being better with the
animals, with the environment and in general
with the world.
8. PERSONAL OPINION
• In my opinion, Jane Goudall is one of the most
important scientist women and person in this
world. The way that defend the ones that
have no voice and how she makes aware
people of being better with environment and
with living beings, her way of being and more
other things make her a great person and
living being.
