Research About Chimpanzees (Jane Goodall)
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In the 19 sixties, with no formal academic training, Jane Goodall ventured into the forests of what is now Gumby Stream National Park in Tanzania to observe chimpanzees in the wild. During her time there, she made several observations about chimpanzees, behavior that challenged conventional scientific theories. Held at the time, she discovered that chimpanzees are omnivores, not herbivores, that they create and use tools and that they have complex social interactions. These insights altered the way we understood our place in the natural order and jane's work open doors for other women in science. Although she stopped doing fieldwork in 1986 Jane Goodall is still hard at work today, traveling approximately 300 days a year, raising awareness and money to protect the chimpanzees and their habitat through her nonprofit organization, the jane Goodall Institute and the jane Goodall Institute Youth Program, Roots and shoots.