Jane Goddall – USA

Linked with The Jane Goodall Institute.

No other primatologist or ethologist has made the cover of National Geographic more than her. Not even Louis Leaky gets more recognition. Her name is synonymous with the names Flo, Freud, and David Greybeard. Jane Goodall is more than just the « chimpanzee lady ». Her work gives new insight to our own humanness and humaneness. We now have the knowledge to explore our own behaviors and emotions in a new light. We share many things with chimpanzees. Jane Goodall has shown us this through her research at the Gombe National Reserve in Tanzania. We share 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees. They often use facial expressions that look uncannily human, although we will never know if they truly possess any emotions that correspond with the expression. Chimps often greet one another with a kiss, hug, or gentle hand touch. Babies stay with their mothers until they reach adulthood. Chimps are omnivorous. They can make and use tools. All of these behaviors were researched and observed by Dr. Jane Goodall for the last 38 years. (full text).

She says: « Chimpanzees are intelligent, social beings. Before Dr. Goodall began her landmark study of them in 1960, however, almost nothing was known of their behavior in the wild. Through our studies of chimpanzees, we humans have learned that we are not the only animals who have close family bonds, make and use tools, or engage in warfare against one another. Here at Chimpanzee Central, you too can learn about our closest relatives! »

Jane Goodall – USA

Listen to her speach of 71 minutes on Google Video, May 6, 2006.

Her Work and Bio:

• on wikipedia;
• on the JGI;
• on JGI.uk;
• on BiographyShelf.com;
• on Women’s International Center WIC;
• Nature;
• on animal planet.

Read:

• Chimpanzees – Bridging the Gap;
• Dr. Jane Goodall’s Earth Day Message of Hope.

Jane Goodall on Blogs:

• Literati.net;
• the Gombe Chimpanzee Blog.

She says also: « When I first saw the video (inside the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, interview not dated, no link to the video), I was shocked, I was horrified, and I was very, very angry. The fact that today conditions such as those that I saw can still be allowed to continue – that people can go to work every day and allow such barbaric conditions to continue – is a very black mark against humanity. I have heard that there are people at the Primate Center who have suggested that the images on your video had been faked. Well, the images that I saw – a baby monkey rolling up into a ball and sucking his penis, an infant monkey with [the disease] Shigella crawling about in his own filth, an adult rhesus who was so crazy that he had bitten his arms, bitten off almost all the flesh, an individual capuchin who had been used in drug research sitting with staring eyes, clearly in the last stages of depression, a monkey strapped down and submitted to a horribly painful electro ejaculation process with electrodes strapped on his penis, just to get a semen sample – these things could not have been faked. There’s no way they could have been faked. No, these monkeys were being tortured. It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country and around the world. Somehow we have to stop it ». (full text).

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. Although it was unheard of for a woman to venture into the wilds of the African forest, the trip meant the fulfillment of Jane Goodall’s childhood dream. Jane’s work in Tanzania would prove more successful than anyone had imagined.

Dr. 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. In April 2002 Secretary-General Annan named Dr. Goodall a United Nations “Messenger of Peace.” Messengers help mobilize the public to become involved in work that makes the world a better place. They serve as advocates in a variety of areas: poverty eradication, human rights, peace and conflict resolution, HIV/AIDS, disarmament, community development and environmentalism. In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II named Dr. Goodall a Dame of the British Empire, the equivalent of a knighthood.

Dr. Goodall has received honorary doctorates from numerous universities, including: Utrecht University, Holland;

Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich; Stirling University, Scotland; Providence University, Taiwan; University of Guelph and Ryerson University in Canada; Buffalo University, Tufts University and other U.S. universities. (full text).

In 1965, Jane earned her Ph.D in Ethology from Cambridge University. Soon thereafter, she returned to Tanzania to continue research and to establish the Gombe Stream Research Centre.

It is hard to overstate the degree to which Dr. Goodall changed and enriched the field of primatology. She defied scientific convention by giving the Gombe chimps names instead of numbers, and insisted on the validity of her observations that animals have distinct personalities, minds and emotions. She wrote of lasting chimpanzee family relationships.

Through the years her work continued to yield surprising insights, such as the unsettling discovery that chimpanzees engage in a primitive form of brutal “warfare.” In early 1974, a « four-year war » began at Gombe, the first record of long-term warfare in nonhuman primates. Members of the Kasakela group systematically annihilated members of the « Kahama » splinter group.

Dr. Goodall would also chart surprising courtship patterns in which males force females onto consortships in remote spots for days or even months. And she and her field staff in 1987 would observe adolescent Spindle « adopt » three-year-old orphan Mel, even though the infant was not a close relative. (full text).

Publications on wikipedia:

Books for adults:

• 1969 My Friends the Wild alens Washington, DC: National Geographic Society
• 1971 Innocent Killers (with H. van Lawick). Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Collins.
• 1971 In the Shadow of Man Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Collins. Published in 48 languages.
• 1986 The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior Boston: Bellknap Press of the Harvard University Press. Published
• also in Japanese and Russian. R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Technical, Scientific or Medical book of 1986, to
• Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press, Boston. The Wildlife Society (USA) Award for « Outstanding Publication in
• Wildlife Ecology and Management ».
• 1990 Through a Window: 30 years observing the Gombe chimpanzees London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Translated into more than 15 languages. 1991 Penguin edition, UK. American Library Association « Best » list among Nine
• Notable Books (Nonfiction) for 1991.
• 1993 Visions of Caliban (co-authored with Dale Peterson, Ph.D.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. New York Times « Notable Book »
• for 1993. Library Journal « Best Sci-Tech Book » for 1993.
• 1999 Brutal Kinship (with Michael Nichols). New York: Aperture Foundation.
• 1999 Reason For Hope; A Spiritual Journey (with Phillip Berman). New York: Warner Books, Inc. Translated into Japanese.
• 2000 40 Years At Gombe New York: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang.
• 2000 Africa In My Blood (edited by Dale Peterson). New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
• 2001 Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters, the later years (edited by Dale Peterson). New York: Houghton Mifflin
• Company
• 2002 The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do To Care for the Animals We Love (with Marc Bekoff). San Francisco: Harper San
• Francisco
• 2005 Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating New York: Warner Books, Inc. ISBN 0-446-53362-9

Children’s books:

• 1972 Grub: The Bush Baby (with H. van Lawick). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• 1988 My Life with the Chimpanzees New York: Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. Translated into French, Japanese and
• Chinese. Parenting’s Reading-Magic Award for « Outstanding Book for Children, » 1989.
• 1989 The Chimpanzee Family Book Saxonville, MA: Picture Book Studio; Munich: Neugebauer Press; London: Picture Book
• Studio. Translated into more than 15 languages, including Japanese and Kiswahili. The UNICEF Award for the best
• children’s book of 1989. Austrian state prize for best children’s book of 1990.
• 1989 Jane Goodall’s Animal World: Chimps New York: Macmillan.
• 1989 Animal Family Series: Chimpanzee Family; Lion Family; Elephant Family; Zebra Family; Giraffe Family; Baboon Family;
• Hyena Family; Wildebeest Family Toronto: Madison Marketing Ltd.
• 1994 With Love New York / London: North-South Books. Translated into German, French, Italian, and Japanese.
• 1999 Dr. White (illustrated by Julie Litty). New York: North-South Books.
• 2000 The Eagle & the Wren (illustrated by Alexander Reichstein). New York: North-South Books.
• 2001 Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours New York: Scholastic Press
• 2004 Rickie and Henri: A True Story (with Alan Marks) Penguin Young Readers Group

Films:

• n/a Miss Goodall: The Hyena Story
• 1963  »Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees National Geographic Society
• 1984 Among the Wild Chimpanzees National Geographic Special
• 1988 People of the Forest with Hugo van Lawick
• 1990 Chimpanzee Alert in the Nature Watch Series, Central Television
• 1990 Chimps, So Like Us HBO film nominated for 1990 Academy Award
• 1990 The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall National Geographic Society.
• 1990 The Gombe Chimpanzees Bavarian Television
• 1995 Fifi’s Boys for the Natural World series for the BBC
• 1996 Chimpanzee Diary for BBC2 Animal Zone
• 1997 Animal Minds for BBC
• 2000 Jane Goodall: Reason For Hope PBS special produced by KTCA
• 2001 Chimps R Us PBS special Scientific Frontiers.
• 2002 Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees (IMAX format), in collaboration with Science North
• 2005 Jane Goodall’s Return to Gombe for Animal Planet

(This list is mostly taken from JGI.)

links:

roots and shoots;

links related to the USC Jane Goodall Research Center;

Jane Goodall Institute Deutschland;

Listen also to Anne Zellers Documentary about (Primate’s) Educational Resources, a Google Video of 36 minutes.