Jane Goodall was born in London in 1934 and showed an early interest in animals. She took a job in Kenya in 1960 where she met Louis Leakey, who asked her to study chimpanzees in the wild. Goodall made pioneering discoveries about chimpanzee behavior, such as tool use and hunting, which challenged assumptions about human uniqueness. She founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 to support her conservation efforts and has received many honors for her work helping chimpanzees and inspiring environmental activism.

1. IN THE MIST
BY JANE GOODALL
ISABELLA

2. CHILDHOOD
I WAS BORN ON APRIL 3 1934
IN LONDON, ENGLAND.
MY DAD GAVE ME
A STUFFED CHIMPANZEE WHEN I WAS LITTLE.
MY FATHER WAS AN ENGINEER AND AUTO RACER
MY MOTHER WAS A NOVELIST
LATER MY SISTER JUDY WOULD GROW UP TO BE A
DOCTOR

3. CHILDHOOD
DIFFICULTIES
WORLD WAR II
DAD WENT TO FIGHT IN THE
WAR
MOTHER WENT INTO A
DEEP DEPRESSION
MOVED TO BOURNEMOUTH, ON THE SOUTH
COAST OF ENGLAND DURING WORLD WAR II
SISTER GOT VERY SICK
AFTER WORLD WAR II, DAD WAS VERY MOODY

4. EDUCATION
 Started elementary school at age 4
 When we moved to the coast we were home
schooled
 After World War II I went to high school
 My parents did not have the money to sent
me to college so I took the job as a therapist
with animals
 I met up with a friend who was working in
Kenya, I jumped at the chance of going to
Africa

5. AFRICA
 Living in Africa was very exciting for me
 I got a job in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya
 I met Dr. Louis Leakey, curator of the Natural
History Museum
 He offered me a job as his assistant.
 We did lots of work on the plains of the Serengeti,
looking for fossils of ancient humans

6. Jane and Dr. Louis Leakey

7. CHIMPANZEES
 Dr. Leakey talked to me about the Chimpanzees
 He wanted someone to study the Chimpanzees. He
wanted someone to study how chimps behave to
learn how early humans may have lived
 Someone would have to spend years alone in the
forest
 I was thrilled to take this job

8. RESEARCH - 1960
 Although I was not trained as a scientist, Dr. Leakey
felt I would have new ideas about what I was seeing
 We needed to raise money for my research. We
asked different groups for support. The Wilkie
Foundation in the US agreed to help.
 The local people worried about my mother and I.
They taught me about bush lore. Then the real
work started.

9. WATCHING THE
CHIMPS
 It took months for the chimps to get used to me
 I learned that they ate meat and made and used
tools
 Not everything was good, some things disturbed
me. (violent, territorial, killing baby chimps)
 Chimps display human behavior – hugs, kisses,
playing games, even tickling
 They also like to groom each other

10. GOMBE
“Avant je suis allé à Gombe,
j'ai dû apprendre le français
couramment pour
communiquer avec tous les
chercheurs sur la Gombe.”
Before I went to Gombe I had to learn
French fluently to communicate with all the
researchers on Gombe.

11. Meeting the Chimps

12. Protecting Chimpanzees
 Protecting their habitat
 Stop the killing of chimps for meat and fur trade
 Identifying dangers the chimps face
 Improving conditions for captive chimpanzees in
zoos

13. HOW I HELPED
CHANGE THE WORLD
 Many thought I could not do a real scientific study
 I kept my records properly so that others could
check it
 My reports were more like stories – I gave the
chimps names instead of numbers
 I needed a new sponsor. The National Geographic
Society gave me enough money for another year
 After 1975, I began to travel and talk to many
groups

14. Learning from Chimps

15. FOUNDATION
 In 1977, I founded the Jane Goodall Institute for
Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation
(JGI)
 My other efforts included Roots and Shoots to
involve students from preschool to college
 There are over 6,000 Roots and Shoots groups in all 50
US states and nearly 90 countries

16. EXPLORER
 I am a Commander of the British Empire
 The president of Tanzania awarded me the
Kilamanjaro Medal
 In 2002, I was named as a United Nations
Messenger of Peace

17. CONCLUSION
 I believe every person makes a difference every day
 In the future I hope that my research will help new
scientists to to help the new generation of chimps

19. QUESTIONS?