my life with the chimpanzees by jane goodall

Jane was a quiet girl, a bookworm who adored Doctor Dolittle and devoured the Tarzan novels. Once Vanne discovered that little Jane had brought a handful of earthworms to bed rather than shrieking, she explained that her new little friends needed the soil to live, and together, they took them back to the garden. To her credit, her mother never discouraged her interests: animals, the natural world, and above all, the wildlife of Africa. The expectations for Jane were standard issue for the time: a marriage to a nice, responsible man, followed by a few children. In 1995 she was made a Commander of the British Empire, and became Dame Jane Morris-Goodall, DBE.īorn Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall in London in 1934, her father, Mortimer, was a businessman her mother, Myfanwe (Vanne) Morris Goodall, was a novelist and looked after her family. In 1977, she founded the Jane Goodall Institute, a nongovernmental organization devoted to protecting the rapidly disappearing chimp habitat. She is the author of dozens of books on chimp and animal behavior, as well as on the critical role of conservation.

She married van Lawick, and in 1967 gave birth to a son, Hugo Eric Louis, known as Grub. It was the first documentary produced by the National Geographic Society, and it made Jane Goodall a star. In 1962, Dutch wildlife photographer Baron Hugo van Lawick filmed Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees. There, she made several groundbreaking discoveries that secured her position as one of the greatest field scientists of the 20th century. In 1960, while visiting a friend in Kenya, she met celebrated anthropologist Louis Leakey, who obtained a grant for her to collect data on chimps in the wild to study their similarities to humans. Jane Goodall is best known for her 26-year study of the chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, located on the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. She blew smoke out of her nose and told me we weren’t the camping types. Once, inspired by Jane, I asked my mother if we might go camping. suburbs, and even though we had a swimming pool, I was aware that my life was sadly lacking in adventure. I’d seen her in National Geographic, which I would avidly page through before I could even read. Jane Goodall, “the girl who lived among the wild chimpanzees,” was blond and looked smart in her khaki shorts as she walked on thick jungle branches in her bare feet and play-wrestled with baby chimps.

My life with the chimpanzees by jane goodall