Jane Goodall is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN messenger of peace. She has spent at least twenty five years of her life observing and studying the behavior of chimpanzees in the wild, making her the world's leading expert on chimpanzees. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute as well as the Roots & Shoots education and activism program for young people.
Goodall had always been passionate about animals and Africa. She began studying the Kasakela chimpanzee community in Gombe, Tanzania in 1960. She has worked very closely with these animals, and she was able to observe the most intimate details of the family and social life of the chimpanzees. How they played, brought up their children, communicated with each other, what food they ate and how and where they built their home. Moreover, Goodall witnessed that chimpanzees seem to show expressions of emotion similar to our own, such as sadness, curiosity, anger and pleasure.
Today, Goodall is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats, devoting almost all her time to support them and their environments.
Goodall has received numerous awards for her environmental and humanitarian work.
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