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What Influenced Jane Goodall’s Fondness for Primates?

Jane Goodall is a British ethologist who is popularly known for her long-term research on chimpanzees. But did you ever wonder what got her interested in these primates? Jane Goodall’s father gave her a plush chimpanzee named Jubilee instead of a teddy bear when she was a child. Goodall has stated that her admiration for […]

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After a Far Side cartoon featured a chimpanzee referring to Jane Goodall as a “tramp”, the cartoonist received a letter from Goodall’s lawyers calling the comic an “atrocity”. Goodall herself later saw the cartoon and loved it, and wrote the introduction to one of the Far Side collections.

Jane Goodall For the Australian author, see Jane R. Goodall. Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (/ˈɡʊdɔːl/; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 60-year study of social and

After a Far Side cartoon featured a chimpanzee referring to Jane Goodall as a “tramp”, the cartoonist received a letter from Goodall’s lawyers calling the comic an “atrocity”. Goodall herself later saw the cartoon and loved it, and wrote the introduction to one of the Far Side collections. Read More »