The famous British primatologist Jane Goodall died on Wednesday, October 1, the institute became his name. The researcher “died of natural causes”, while in California, in a conference tour in the US.
Jane Goodall/Photo: Wikipedia
This tireless researcher, who has devoted his entire life to studying the great anthropoid monkeys and protecting the environment, revolutionized how man understands his place in nature, writes Agerpres.
Born on April 3, 1934, in London, Goodall was crossing the planet to defend the cause of chimpanzees, monkeys that came to study for the first time over 60 years ago in Tanzania, at that time the British protectorate Tanganyika.
The messenger of peace for the UN since 2002, Jane Goodall has only spent a few weeks a year in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania, where she started her long scientific career.
Self -taught professional and naturalist secretary, the young British went to Africa to the invitation of friends who owned a farm in Kenya.
In 1957, he met the curator of the Kenyan National Museum, the famous paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey. He made him an incredible proposal: to come to observe the chimpanzees on the banks of Lake Tanganyika, in a natural environment close to the one in which our distant ancestors lived.
Thanks to his perseverance, Jane Goodall managed to become accepted by those “NATIVE“Very discreet, becoming practically a member of their group.
The researchers in “Old School” of science were shocked at reading her first reports, where she spoke about David Barbă-Gri, Flo, Mike, Mac Gregor and others, instead of individuals identified by letters and numbers.
He described in detail their society with complex relationships and discovered that the chimpanzees were not vegetarians, but omnivores.
