Jane Goodall

Today i have to tell you about a person on my field that i admire

The person that i chose is Jane Goodall, she was born in London, England, in 1934, she always dreamed with living in africa to watch and write about animals. Jane left school but she couldn’t go to university, years after a jane’s friend invites her to go to Kenya.

In Kenya she meets Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey, a famous anthropologist and paleontologist, he entrusted her the mision of travel to Gombe to study the wild chimpanzees.

Jane observed two chimpanzees making tools to extract termites from their mounds, they selected a thin branch from a tree, striped the leaves and pushed the branch into the  termite mound, after a few seconds they pulled out the termite-covered stick and picked off the tasty termites with their mouth.

That becomes in the most important discoveries of Jane, until that time, only humans were thought to create tools. Her observations of hunting habits, emotions, inteligence and personalilty revolutionized the biology and the perception of primates.

Jane is doctor in ethology in Cambridge University, she wrote more than 25 books, a lot of cientific articles and documentaries, Jane Goodall is considered one of the most important scientific women of the XX century. 

In 1977 she founded the Jane Goodall Institute, that contributes to the conservation and study of primates, also inspire young people to take positive action on the environment.