"She was in California on a speaking tour and died of natural causes, according to the Jane Goodall Institute. Goodall is best known for her work with chimpanzees in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. She was the first to discover that chimpanzees made and used tools. She went on to become an advocate for conservation, human rights and animal welfare, including stopping the use of animals in medical research."
"While studying for her PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK, in the early 1960s, Goodall broke with the scientific convention of using numbers to identify animals, assigning them names instead. She named a male chimp with silver facial hair David Greybeard. This change upset senior scientists at the time, but it is now common practice to use animal names."
Jane Goodall died on 1 October in California at age 91 of natural causes while on a speaking tour. She is best known for studying chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, and for discovering that chimpanzees make and use tools. She assigned names to individual animals, humanizing primates and demonstrating emotions, empathy, and culture among chimpanzees. Her methods changed animal research practices and challenged assumptions about chimpanzee diets by showing they ate meat. She became an advocate for conservation, human rights, and animal welfare, campaigning against animals in medical research. She founded the Jane Goodall Institute in Washington, D.C., in 1977.
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