"That's what she told NPR on MORNING EDITION in an interview in 2021. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR CONTENT) JANE GOODALL: Because at that time, the scientific attitude towards animals was so reductionist. You know, only humans had personalities, minds and emotions, and animals were not sentient beings at all. You shouldn't have empathy with them. Well, I didn't know any of that. I hadn't been told it."
"Goodall gave the chimpanzees she was studying names like Flo, Fifi and David Greybeard. She interacted with them and quickly started making discoveries about their social structures, how they use tools, how, in many ways, they weren't all that different from us. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR CONTENT) GOODALL: Genetically, we share 98.6% of our DNA with them. ROTT: So she did empathize with them."
Jane Goodall began a long-term study of chimpanzee behavior in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park in 1960 at age 26 without formal higher scientific education. Louis Leakey mentored her and viewed her lack of conventional training as an advantage. Goodall named individual chimpanzees and observed complex social structures, tool use, and behaviors that blurred distinctions between humans and apes. She emphasized empathy for animals and noted the close genetic relationship to chimpanzees. Goodall combined scientific research with conservation and animal welfare advocacy, collaborated on long-term monitoring projects, became a prominent conservationist, and inspired new generations of scientists. She died at 91.
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