Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall
- English primatologist
and anthropologist
- 55-year study of
social and family
interactions of wild
chimpanzees
- Founder of Jade
Goodall Institute and
the Roots & Shoots
programme
Research at
Gombe
Stream ▹ Studied chimpanzee social and family
National life
Park
▹ Instead of numbering the chimpanzees,
she gave them names and observed
them to have unique personalities
▹ Challenged the belief that only humans
can use tools, and that chimpanzees are
vegetarian
 Gary Larson
Cartoon Incident
The Jane Goodall Institute
thought this comic was in bad
taste, and had their lawyers
draft a letter to Larson. When
Goodall returned from Africa,
however, she stated that she
found the cartoon amusing and
praised Larson’s creative
ideas.