"While living among chimpanzees in Africa decades ago, Goodall documented the animals using tools and doing other activities previously believed to be exclusive to people, and also noted their distinct personalities. Her observations and subsequent magazine and documentary appearances in the 1960s transformed how the world perceived not only humans' closest living biological relatives but also the emotional and social complexity of all animals, while propelling her into the public consciousness."
""Out there in nature by myself, when you're alone, you can become part of nature and your humanity doesn't get in the way," she told The Associated Press in 2021. "It's almost like an out-of-body experience when suddenly you hear different sounds and you smell different smells and you're actually part of this amazing tapestry of life." In her later years, Goodall devoted decades to education and advocacy on humanitarian causes and protecting the natural world."
Jane Goodall died at 91, announced by the Jane Goodall Institute. She pioneered decades of chimpanzee field research in Africa, documenting tool use, complex social behavior and distinct personalities. Her findings altered scientific and public understanding of human-animal boundaries and highlighted emotional and social complexity across species. She spent later decades on education and humanitarian and environmental advocacy, balancing warnings about climate change with messages of hope. From Bournemouth she traveled nearly 300 days a year into her 90s to speak worldwide, often mixing solemn points with playful whoops. Early unconventional methods included feeding and naming chimpanzees, drawing criticism from some peers.
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