Jane Goodall
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JANE GOODALL
Date of Birth: April 3, 1934
Birthplace: London, England
Education: Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1965.
Profession: Ethologist, Gombe Stream Research Centre, Tanzania, East Africa, 1960-; Writer, 1965-; Assistant Secretary to Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey, 1960; Assistant Curator, National Museum of Natural History, Nairobi, Kenya, 1960; Visiting Professor of psychiatry and human biology, Stanford University, 1970-75; Honorary Visiting Professor of zoology, University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 1972.
What I have learned from [chimpanzees] has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
-Jane Goodall
I have been interested in animals since before I can remember. When I was four years old, I stayed on a farm where I helped to collect hen's eggs. I became puzzled and asked those around me, 'Where is the hole big enough for the eggs to come out?' When no one answered to my satisfaction, I hid in a small, stuffy henhouse for some four hours to find out. When my mother saw me rushing toward the house, she noticed my excitement. Instead of scolding me for disappearing for so long (the family had even called the police!), she sat down and listened to me tell the wonderful story of how a hen lays an egg.
-Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall's popular books on chimpanzees have the family lines of Tolstoy and the addictive intrigue of a soap opera—the "Dynasty" of chimps.
-Carla Hall, Washington Post
