Jane Goodall Primatologist

Jane Goodall
“What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.” April 3, 1934 in London, Jane Goodall was born. Some of the discoveries Jane made, was that chimpanzees make tools, eat, and hunt for meat, and have similar behavior to humans. A primatologist is someone who studies, both living and extinct mammals in their natural habitats and in laboratories. An ethologist is someone who scientifically and objectively study animal behavior most of the time under their natural habitats and conditions. An anthropologist is someone who studies various aspects of humans within past and present societies. These she was. In 1964, Jane married Hugo Van Lawick and had a child, Hugo Eric Louis, in 1967. In 1974, when they divorced, one of the observations Jane made was that the chimps wage war on other groups and acts of cannibalism. Eating the flesh of other animals would be cannibalism.

In 1957, Jane went to Africa, where she met Louis Leakey and he offered her a job there. Three years later, with binoculars and a notebook, she sits and observes chimps when she discovers what they can do. In the beginning, nobody cared about animals and what they did. Life back then was boring and then, all of a sudden, Jane Goodall makes an amazing discovery. A new world was opened up to the study of animals and their behaviors. “All of Jane’s contributions to our lives have helped people really understand not just chimps and their behaviors, but also the connections between chimps and humans,” says National Geographic. Greatly, we care about Jane’s