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Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ d ɔː l /; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), [3] formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist. [4] She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years' studying the social and family interactions of wild ...
The Trimates. The Trimates, [1][2] sometimes called Leakey's Angels, [3] is a name given to three women — Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, [4] and Birutė Galdikas — chosen by anthropologist Louis Leakey to study primates in their natural environments. They studied chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, respectively.
Dian Fossey. Dian Fossey (/ daɪˈæn / dy-AN; January 16, 1932 – c. December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. [1] She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by ...
The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is a global non-profit wildlife and environment conservation organization headquartered in Washington, DC. [1] It was founded in 1977 by English primatologist Jane Goodall and Genevieve di San Faustino (1919-2011). [2] The institute's mission is to improve the treatment and understanding of primates through ...
A sculpture of Jane Goodall and David Greybeard outside the Field Museum in Chicago. The Kasekela chimpanzee community (formerly spelled Kasakela [1]) is a habituated community of wild eastern chimpanzees that lives in Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. [2] The community was the subject of Jane Goodall 's pioneering study ...
It turns out you don’t have to be Jane Goodall to understand apes. ... 5,656 participants were asked to watch a series of 20 videos displaying gestures from chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest ...
Great ape personhood. Bonobos, members of the great ape family, Hominidae. Great ape personhood is a movement to extend personhood and some legal protections to the non- human members of the great ape family: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. [1][2][3] Advocates include primatologists Jane Goodall and Dawn Prince-Hughes ...
Galdikas was the third of a trio of women appointed by Leakey to study great apes in their natural habitat. Dubbed by Leakey "The Trimates" [9] the trio also included Jane Goodall, who studied chimpanzees, and Dian Fossey, who studied gorillas. [3]