How Did Jane Goodall's 50 Year Study On Chimpanzees
Throughout Jane Goodall’s 50 year study on chimpanzees she changed the beliefs about chimps forever. In 1960 Jane Goodall began to study the chimps in Gombe, Africa so she could learn more about her favorite animal. Thanks to Dr. Louis Leakey, an anthropologist and paleontologist, and her friend who had invited her to Africa she was able to follow her dream of going to Africa.
Before Jane Goodall’s discoveries people didn’t know much about animals. They thought there were no similarities between humans and animals,they believed that animals didn’t have the same reaction to things as people.They believed that animals didn’t feel things, such as pain, like we do.Animals were completely different from them and there was nothing similar between them and people in any way.
Ever since Jane was a little girl she always had a great concern for animals and their …show more content…
After working as Louis Leakey’s secretary for a few months and helping him and his wife dig up fossils in Olduvai, one day she encountered a lion while exploring with another girl, Gillian Trace, Jane was asked if she would like to do some research on chimpanzees she accepted the offer. Before she could go observe the chimps they Leakey had to raise money for her to go, she traveled back to England until she could go into the rainforest. While back in England she would go to London Zoo to observe the chimps there, after going there for a while and seeing how sad and unhappy the chimps were she told herself one day she would help them and all other chimps in captivity. Jane Goodall ran into problem while waiting to go to Africa, London owned Tanganyika, the place where she had planned on going. The people who owned the place didn’t like the idea of a young women going into the rainforest alone, Louis Leakey wouldn’t take no for an answer so he negotiated a deal with them, Jane had to take a guide
Before Jane Goodall’s discoveries people didn’t know much about animals. They thought there were no similarities between humans and animals,they believed that animals didn’t have the same reaction to things as people.They believed that animals didn’t feel things, such as pain, like we do.Animals were completely different from them and there was nothing similar between them and people in any way.
Ever since Jane was a little girl she always had a great concern for animals and their …show more content…
After working as Louis Leakey’s secretary for a few months and helping him and his wife dig up fossils in Olduvai, one day she encountered a lion while exploring with another girl, Gillian Trace, Jane was asked if she would like to do some research on chimpanzees she accepted the offer. Before she could go observe the chimps they Leakey had to raise money for her to go, she traveled back to England until she could go into the rainforest. While back in England she would go to London Zoo to observe the chimps there, after going there for a while and seeing how sad and unhappy the chimps were she told herself one day she would help them and all other chimps in captivity. Jane Goodall ran into problem while waiting to go to Africa, London owned Tanganyika, the place where she had planned on going. The people who owned the place didn’t like the idea of a young women going into the rainforest alone, Louis Leakey wouldn’t take no for an answer so he negotiated a deal with them, Jane had to take a guide