Women's History Month Staff Picks - Jane Goodall!

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 MAP is celebrating Women’s History Month! This March we are sharing staff picks of influential women throughout history. Today’s pick is from MAP’s Farmhouse Coordinator/AmeriCorps VISTA Member, Addison! We will be sharing more #Herstory throughout the month so stay tuned for more! Today’s feature is Jane Goodall!


British ethologist Jane Goodall with chimpanzee Freud at Gombe National Park in Tanzania.


Jane Goodall (born April 3, 1934, London, England) is a British ethologist, known for her exceptionally detailed and long-term research on the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Goodall developed an interest in animal behavior from a young age. She began her career as a social scientist by assisting anthropologist and paleontologist Louis Leeky. Through this opportunity she established a camp to study the behavior of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream Game Reserve (now a National Park) in Tanzania. Motivated by her early research, Goodall returned to England to attend the University of Cambridge earning her PhD in ethology in 1965. Goodall Returned to Tanzania to complete her research studying the behavior of chimpanzees. 

Goodall's research led to the observation that chimpanzees are omnivores, meaning they eat meat in addition to vegetables. Furthermore, Goodall discovered that chimpanzees are capable of using tools and have complex, highly developed social behaviors. She co-founded the Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation (commonly called the Jane Goodall Institute) in 1977. She continues to write and lecture about environmental and conservation issues today.

Work Cited for Text:
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Jane Goodall". Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Jan. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Goodall. Accessed 3 March 2021.

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