Jane GoodallBy: Sam Goodall and Eric Fraser

Biography

APRIL 3RD 1934 London, England

Always interested in the behaviour of animals

Graduated from high school in 1952

After graduating worked as a secretary at Oxford University

1956 Jane worked at a London film company at the age of 22

Invited by a childhood friend to live in Africa with her family she began almost immediately saving money as it was her dream to travel there and study animals

1957 aged 23 Jane docked in Mombasa, Africa and soon found her self to be the assistant to the well known Louis Leakey

She was chosen despite having no college degree

Date of Study & School of thought

1960 at the age of 26 she was fully immersed into the world of chimpanzees’ which in 1960 there was very little known about

Jane began by observing the chimps behaviours in the Gombe stream reserve along Lake Tanganyika (now Tanzania) with a note pad and a pair of binoculars

She began to concern herself with Physical Anthropology

Basis of ResearchAnd her methods

Jane’s basis of research came when she found that chimps were manufacturing tools from reeds and branches, even stone. Jane wondered if humans were the first to use this kind of thinking.

Jane’s methods of research were through observation and when it came to the “Banana Club” she used interaction

Banana Club was a systematic way of feeding the chimps bananas everyday in order to gain their trust, affection, and respect

Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKyrLFyOi04

Discoveries - recap -

Chimpanzees are carnivorous

Observed higher level intelligence and planning

Male chimps also showed elements of strategic dominance

Warring between two gangs of chimps lasted 4 years

They also were seen practicing monogamy ( one mate for life )

Compassion was shown for a child with out a mother

They also tend to teach each other skills such as hunting and crafting

Chimpanzees deliberately eat medicinal plants to help with body pains

Criticism Jane Goodall faced lots of criticism because she happened to be a woman alone in the jungle

Although finishing high school Jane never attended a college this caused a fair bit of backlash from the academic community

Question 1

How do we as humans differ from primates ?

Question 2

What other animals possess human like qualities ?

Question 3

Has Jane Goodall’s research changed the way we look at evolution ?

Thank you For Listening

Questions any one?

Citations

Jane Goodall: A Retrospective (YouTube)

Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE (the Jane Goodall Institute |)

Jane Goodall, Primatologist Information (Emeritus), Facts, News, Photos -- National Geographic (National Geographic)