![]() ![]() From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Through her work at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania and her own Roots and Shoots program she has become a tireless advocate for animals and the planet.Īs for that stuffed toy, Jubilee still sits on Goodall’s dresser in London. An engrossing tale of adventure and commitment. 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. Today, almost three decades later, Jane has grown from a stranger to the chimp’s loyal friend and strongest ally. Her mission was to find and observe an elusive tribe of chimpanzees. In the summer of 1960, 26-year-old Jane Goodall set out for Africa. During her expeditions she braved many dangers and she got to know an amazing group of wild chimpanzees-intelligent animals whose lives, in work and play and family relationships, bear a surprising resemblance to our own. JANE GOODALL: MY LIFE WITH THE CHIMPANZEES. ![]() ![]() Jane dreamed of a life spent working with animals, and when she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. While others thought Jane would be terrified by the toy, she adored it and it inspired a life-long love of animals in her. Inspired by a stuffed toy, Jane Goodall became the first woman to study chips in the wild and in the process made history.Īs a child, Jane Goodall was given a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee, and she has said her fondness for this figure started her early love of animals. ![]()
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