Besides laying down the foundation for all future primate studies, what inspired me about Jane Goodall was her determination to live out her life long goal of working with African wildlife. Her dream becoming reality looked unfortunate when she winded up attended a secretarial school and then getting a job with a documentary film company in England. Then, unexpectedly, an old school friend invited Jane to visit her in Kenya, Africa, and eager to go, Jane worked as a waitress to save money for the fare. At twenty three, Jane made the trip that seemed to have taken a lifetime of anticipation and it was in fact the beginning of an adventure where there was no turning back.
While in Kenya, in an effort to realize her dream of studying wild animals, she contacted Dr. Louis Leakey, a renowned paleontologist and anthropologist. She made an appointment to meet him and further surprised Dr. Leakey by answering many of his questions about Africa and it's wildlife. It was when Dr. Leakey hired her as his assistant when Jane's life really began. Along with Dr. Leakey and his wife, Jane traveled to Olduvai Gorge on a fossil-hunting expedition. "I always remember the first time I held in my hand the bone of a creature that had walked the earth millions of years before. I had dug it up myself. A feeling of awe crept over me," said Jane reminiscing about this time in her life, (www.pbs.com). After three months in Olduvai Gorge, they returned to Nairobi, Kenya, and Jane worked at the museum there. Soon after their return, Jane and Dr. Leakey had several conversations about the possibility of her studying a group of chimpanzees on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and he decided that she was the unique individual he was looking for. Jane professed that she could have continued to have worked at the museum or could have become a paleontologist, but both these careers had to do with dead animals. Her childhood dream was as strong as ever saying, " I wanted to learn things that no one else knew, uncover secrets through patient observation.
The first thing that made me pick Jane Goodall was that she has the same interests as me. ... Jane Goodall should be on a stamp because she helped us realize how chimpanzees are so alike with humans. ... Jane went to Africa and studied chimps for certain amounts of time. ... Jane spends most of her time while she's in Africa in the jungles of Gombe. ... Jane taught us how chimps have some of the same habits as we do. ...
JANE GOODALL Jane Goodall is a biologist who was born in war-torn London on April 3, 1934. Not long after Jane's arrival, the Goodall family moved to a town along the southern coast of England, called Bournemouth. ... Jane Goodall was strongly influenced by a prominent anthropologist named Louis Leakey. ... Jane Goodall's works have made apparent the genetic similarities between Homo sapiens and chimps. ... Since her personal studies, Jane has founded Jane Goodall Institutes in nine countries. ...
Jane Goodall's Through a Window Through a Window, a non-fictional novel by Jane Goodall is the dramatic saga of 30 years in Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where the principle residents are chimpanzees and one extraordinary woman. ... Jane Goodall is an internationally renowned primatologist and conservationist who has spent more than twenty-five years living in the jungles of Tanzania studying chimpanzees. ... A common day for Goodall is spent following a mother and her family until evening. ... When Jane started her study, a chimp called Goliath was leader. ... Jane's s...
Though both Farley Mowatt and Jane van Lawick-Goodall have similarly isolated themselves in the wilderness in the hope of achieving a higher understanding, their methods, perspective, and observations show two vastly different approaches. ... In Jane van Lawick-Goodall's "First Observations", the narrator approached the chimpanzees more objectively. ... Whether this is partially due to the fact that Jane van Lawick-Goodall is a woman is hard to tell, but she seems to acquire and almost gentle affection for the animals. ...
As one of the world's foremost primatologists, Jane Goodall has become synonymous with the study of chimpanzees. ... Among chimpanzees, long-lasting bonds form between mothers and their offspring, while related males in the same social group cooperate together in competition with males from other communities (Goodall, 1986). ... These individuals represent particularly attractive social partners because they grow up together, are generally familiar with each other, and are likely to share similar social interests and power throughout their lives (Goodall, 1986). ... Jane Goodall observ...
For the articles, "A Plea for Chimps" by Jane Goodall, "The Ethics of Euthanasia" by Lawrence J. ... In the first article, "A Plea for Chimps", the author Jane Goodall presented the article to ask for a "more humane treatment of chimpanzees used for medical research." (Goodall 559). ... Goodall believes that the least the researchers can do is to improve the quality of life for the chimps and not slowly push them to their death. ... Each of the authors, Jane Goodall of "A Plea for the Chimps", Lawrence J. ...
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