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Jane Goodall - MSN Encarta Jane Goodall, born in 1934, British zoologist noted for her studies of chimpanzees in the wild. Goodall observed that when a group of chimpanzees divides into multiple groups, members of one group may attack and kill members of another group to gain dominance. Goodall is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Order of the British Empire (2003), the Chicago Academy of Sciences' Honorary Environmental Leader Award (2003), and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest (2004). encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562479/Jane_Goodall.html   (606 words)

Jane Goodall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Jane Goodall was born April 3, 1934 in London England. Jane had wanted to go to Africa since she was a child, so when an old friend from school invited Jane to visit her in Kenya, Jane eagerly accepted. Over the last thirty years, Jane Goodall's story has had all the ingredients of a great adventure from the early days when she and her mother suffered malaria to her first sighting of a chimp using a tool. www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/fghij/goodall_jane.html   (552 words)

Amazon.ca: Reason For Hope: Books: Jane Goodall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Jane Goodall tells us about her amazing travels-- from a young ambitious girl growing up in the birches of England to a brillant woman documenting apes' behavior in the forests of Africa to bravely fighting for environmental change around the world. Jane is a remarkable woman, who's story of struggle as a young and inexperienced scientist with what were thought to be absurd ideals and methods of study, received much flack from the scientific community of her time. Jane made an amazing and commendable effort to be honest and humble with her readers, sharing her deepest and seemingly most private thoughts, which all have played a part in shaping her life and character. www.amazon.ca /Reason-Hope-Jane-Goodall/dp/1570426066   (1856 words)

National Geographic: Explorers-in-Residence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Goodall's patience and persistent desire to understand animals prompted Leakey to choose her for this pioneering study. Goodall was the international recipient of the 1996 Caring Award and of the 1996 William Proctor Prize for Scientific Achievement from the scientific research society Sigma Xi. Goodall also shares more than 40 years of collaboration with National Geographic on her groundbreaking field research on chimpanzees, and was one of the founding Explorers-in-Residence at the Society. www.nationalgeographic.com /council/eir/bio_goodall.html   (570 words)

Psychology History Jane Goodall was born in London, England, on April 3, 1934 and grew up on the southern coast of England in Bournemouth. Today Goodall is a professor-at-large with Cornell University and focuses her attention on a passionate campaign for chimpanzee conservation and research. Goodall’s research has “highlighted striking similarities in the behavior of chimpanzee and man, notably communication patterns Eventually the detailed understanding of chimpanzee behavior that will result from [her] long-term research at the Gombe will help man in his attempts to understand more of himself ” (van Lawick-Goodall, 1971). muskingum.edu /~psychology/psycweb/history/goodall.htm   (1095 words)

Jane-Goodall.com - One Of The Most Beautiful Women On Earth (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Like most little girls her age, Jane Goodall, born in London in 1934, was an avid reader of the popular Tarzan books and dreamed of living amongst the wild animals of the jungle. Goodall’s son, Hugo Eric Louis (Grub) was born in 1967, the same year she was named scientific director of the Gombe Stream Research Center. Moved to action by the rapid disappearance of her beloved chimpanzees’; habitat, today, at age 65, Goodall is a tireless crusader, who travels around the world on behalf of the environment and Roots and Shoots, a program of the Jane Goodall Institute. www.jane-goodall.com.cob-web.org:8888   (660 words)

The Jane Goodall Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) In the summer of 1960, 26-year-old Jane Goodall arrived on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in East Africa to study the area's chimpanzee population. Goodall's scores of honors include the Medal of Tanzania, the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal, Japan's prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2003, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, and the Gandhi/King Award for Nonviolence. Goodall's list of publications is extensive, including two overviews of her work at Gombe—In the Shadow of Man and Through a Window—as well as two autobiographies in letters and a spiritual autobiography, Reason for Hope. www.janegoodall.org /jane/default.asp   (746 words)

Jane Goodall Jane was born in London and went to school in Bournemouth. Jubilee was to stay with Jane all her life and was probably the start of her enthusiasm for chimpanzees and wild life. Jane observed that they only trusted her if she was alone, wore the same clothes and did not try to interfere with them. www.zephyrus.co.uk /janegoodall.html   (663 words)

WIC Biography - Jane Goodall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Jane Goodall is the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees, having closely observed their behavior for the past quarter century in the jungles of the Gombe Game Reserve in Africa, living in the chimps' environment and gaining their confidence. Jane Goodall attributes her dedication and insight to her work and her mission in life to her mother, internationally known author, Vanne Goodall. Dr. Goodall has expanded her global outreach with the founding of the Jane Goodall Institute based in Ridgefield, CT. She now teaches and encourages young people to appreciate the conversation of chimpanzees and all creatures great and small. www.wic.org /bio/jgoodall.htm   (284 words)

National Geographic News @ nationalgeographic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) When Goodall first reported from Africa, National Geographic readers were almost as interested in the small, soft-spoken young woman as they were in the chimpanzees she was studying. Another concern of Goodall's is that, "children around the world are losing hope." To inspire these children, Goodall began a program called Roots and Shoots, which teaches children how to help the environment in their own backyard. Goodall's research in Tanzania showed that chimps shared many other traits with humans: they eat meat, make and use tools, express awe, form coalitions, and fight wars. news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2001/03/0313_goodall.html   (603 words)

Interview: Jane Goodall - May/June 2006 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club Jane Goodall would clearly like nothing better than to study chimpanzee behavior in her beloved Gombe National Park in Tanzania (or Tanganyika, as it was known when she began her research there in 1960). Goodall no longer does field research, however, because these days her work is among the humans. Jane Goodall: Worldwide there are more human children born every day than the total number of great apes left in the wild, which is about 300,000 at the most and decreasing all the time. www.sierraclub.org /sierra/200605/interview.asp   (1086 words)

Jane Goodall lectures at Cornell Because Goodall distinguished between individual chimpanzees by giving them names instead of numbers, her behavioral studies of chimps were initially dismissed by her male colleagues. Today, at age 63, Goodall spends most of her time traveling around the world, promoting both conservation of wild chimpanzees and improved conditions for those in captivity, before packed audiences such as the one in Bailey. Goodall also spoke to two undergraduate classes and met with nutritional and veterinary school faculty during her campus stay. www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/98/9.17.98/Goodall.html   (783 words)

The My Hero Project - Jane Goodall Jane Goodall is a British ethologist and authority on wild chimpanzees. Jane worked in Africa for the British anthropologist Louis S. Leakey, at whose suggestion she set up a camp in 1960 in the Gombe Stream Chimpanzees Reserve on Lake Tanganyika. Jane Goodall is an authority on wild chimpanzees. www.myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=janegoodall   (1323 words)

Jane Goodall fills Con Hall with hope - Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Jane Goodall, the world-renowned environmentalist and U.N Messenger for Peace visited U of T on May 16 and delivered a public lecture titled Reason for Hope as part of the launch of the Centre for Environment's Natural City 2006 conference. Goodall paid special tribute to her mother, Vanne Goodall, who encouraged the young Jane to study the chimpanzees of the Gombe National Reserve in Tanzania in 1960. Goodall then spoke of her life before and after her time in Africa as well as her observations and discoveries about chimpanzees that helped millions of people understand the importance of wildlife conservation. www.thevarsity.ca /news/2006/05/15/Science/Jane-Goodall.Fills.Con.Hall.With.Hope-2011659.shtml   (367 words)

Jane Goodall, a Chum of Chimps Goodall is grateful she had no background in science when she began her work—it allowed her to view animals with greater compassion. Goodall said her idyllic life researching "incredible beings" in the forest was disrupted when she saw a horrific film of experiments on laboratory animals at a conference in Chicago in 1986. Goodall said she misses the time she used to have with chimps, and for research and writing. www.primatesworld.com /ChumOfChimps.html   (1159 words)

USC College : News : October 2006 : Jane Goodall Goodall’s message has evolved since the late 1950s, when she began observing the social behavior of free-living chimpanzees in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Goodall said she was shocked to learn after 10 years in the field that chimpanzees also have a dark side. During her talk, Goodall applauded the contributions of Stanford, who is best known for his groundbreaking work on the meat-eating behavior of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania, among other places. www.usc.edu /schools/college/news/october_2006/jane_goodall.html   (1284 words)

Democracy Now! | A Conversation with the "Chimpanzee Lady": Jane Goodall on Animals, the Environment and her Life Goodall, who is known for her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees and baboons, turns her attention to the food we eat and how it reaches our tables. JANE GOODALL: I was born in London in England in 1934. JANE GOODALL: The chimpanzee study was — well, it’s still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble, that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we're simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think. www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/11/24/0740243   (5389 words)

Animal Planet :: News :: Jane Goodall Honored Goodall thanked teams working for her in 90 countries as she took the award, saying: "This medal will in a way help all of them in the battle... In 1977, she created the Jane Goodall Institute to manage a network of centers in Africa that care for chimpanzees that have survived poachers. After the UNESCO ceremony, Goodall was received by French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who bestowed her with a Legion of Honor. animal.discovery.com /news/afp/20060123/janegoodall.html   (437 words)

The Power to Learn: Women's History Month When Jane Goodall was about eight years old, the Dr. Doolittle story inspired her dream of living in Africa and writing about wild animals. Jane did this despite the fact that while she was waiting tables, most people told her she was crazy. Jane, a woman in her twenties, with no college degree at the time (she couldn't afford it), had just shredded that theory. www.powertolearn.com /themes_whm/jgoodall.html   (359 words)

Reaching Across the Species Barrier Jane Goodall, however is equally interested in the animals for their own sakes, as creatures who are "next to Homo sapiens, the most fascinating and complex in the world today. Jane Goodall's study of chimpanzees has been recognized as the longest unbroken field study ever conducted of any group of animals in their native habitat. Jane was the 1998 recipient of The Orion Society's John Hay Award. arts.envirolink.org /interviews_and_conversations/JaneGoodall.html   (3865 words)

Jane Goodall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It was while in Bournemouth that Jane first met up with distinguished wildlife authority Sir David Attenborough, who taught Jane the importance of the higher order primates, and impressed upon her the need to defend the fragile biosphere. Jane is best-known for her forty-five year study of chimpanzee social and family life. Goodall was instrumental in the study of social learning, thinking, acting, and culture in wild chimpanzees, their differentiation from the bonobo, and the inclusion of both species along with the gorilla as Hominids. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jane_Goodall   (2174 words)

NATURE. Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees. Jane Goodall's Story | PBS That girl was Jane Goodall, and while she grew up determined to share a forest home with African animals, she may not have expected that doing so would lead her to fame as a naturalist, one who changed forever the way we see the chimpanzee, our closest primate relative. But chimp life was still a mystery in 1957, when, on a trip she had saved for years to make, a 23-year old Goodall arrived in Kenya to visit a high school friend. Nevertheless, in 1960, Goodall began her research at Gombe Stream National Park in the East African nation of Tanzania. www.pbs.org /wnet/nature/goodall/story.html   (473 words)

Jane Goodall Institute - Welcome Jane Goodall is one of the World's most famous scientists. Her research in Africa continues to this day and is the longest field study ever undertaken of any group of animals in the wild. Today, however, Jane combines her scientific work with international advocacy on behalf of chimps and the environment. www.janegoodall.org.uk   (186 words)

Amazon.com: Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe: Books: Goodall Inst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Jane Goodall is the most famous primatologist, possibly the most famous field biologist, of the 20th century. Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe is a pictorial tribute to her life, her studies of the chimpanzees, and her unflagging efforts to motivate human beings on their behalf. A recurring theme is Goodall's powerful motivation to bond personally with the chimpanzees she comes into contact with, be they orphans, lab animals, or even wild chimpanzees in her research study. www.amazon.com /Jane-Goodall-40-Years-Gombe/dp/1556709471   (1155 words)

Jane Goodall Jane Goodall began her landmark study of chimpanzees in Tanzania in June 1960, under the mentorship of anthropologist and paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey. In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute, which continues the Gombe research and is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. Goodall travels an average 300 days per year, speaking about the threats facing chimpanzees, other environmental crises, and her reasons for hope that humankind will solve the problems it has imposed on the earth. www.motherjones.com /radio/2006/05/goodall_bio.html   (604 words)

Goodall, Jane - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) In 1977 she founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation in Silver Spring, Md. Later she established "Roots and Shoots," an international children's environmental education program. Interview: Dr. Jane Goodall discusses her life as a primatologist working with chimpanzees, the IMAX movie about her life and being in the forefront of animal rights Jane Goodall in Africa with her beloved chimps on a new documentary www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-goodall.html   (463 words)

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