"Jane Goodall, the pioneering chimpanzee researcher who changed our understanding of what it means to be human, died while on tour in California at 91 years old. The Jane Goodall Institute posted a statement October 1 saying she died "in her sleep" and of natural causes. Goodall dedicated her life to environmental conservation and the study of animals in the field."
""At the time, I wanted to do things which men did and women didn't," she told National Geographic in the 2017 documentary "Jane." Goodall first visited Kenya in 1957, and met archaeologist Louis Leakey there. He hired her to observe chimps in the wild, and that initial journey into the forest - for a researcher with no formal training but ample patience and keen observational skills - was the beginning of Goodall's lifelong investigation into what makes us human."
Jane Goodall died at 91 in her sleep of natural causes while on tour in California. She dedicated her life to environmental conservation and decades of field study of chimpanzees, becoming an international wildlife ambassador. Born into a middle-class British family without college, she pursued a lifelong dream of living among African wildlife. Goodall first visited Kenya in 1957, met Louis Leakey, and was hired to observe wild chimpanzees. She began formal research at Gombe in 1960 with her mother accompanying her, spent months gaining chimp acceptance, and discovered that chimpanzees manufacture and use tools.
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