"Rarely do I get as excited and giddy to meet such a hero and humanitarian as I did meeting, introducing and touring her around the zoo, says Nick Dehejia, the zoo's chief executive officer. She had this incredible aura and ability to make you feel like nothing else mattered in the moment. Or maybe it was just me pinching myself that Dr. Jane and I were walking and talking like it was just another day at the zoo. She will be missed more profoundly than I can imagine."
"Goodall rose to fame in the early 1960s, when she scandalized the male-dominated scientific elite by giving the chimpanzees she was studying names instead of numbers, which they dismissed as mere sentimentality. She would lose her scientific detachment, they said; but the more she got to know the chimps, the more the idea that they too have feelings became clear. That breakthrough perception is now the foundation of all animal behavior science and the bottom line of everything they do at the Oakland Zoo."
Jane Goodall's death prompted mourning worldwide and enthusiastic tributes at the Oakland Zoo where schoolchildren greeted her warmly. Nick Dehejia described her aura and ability to make people feel present, saying she will be profoundly missed. Goodall rose to fame in the early 1960s by naming chimpanzees, challenging a male-dominated scientific elite that favored detachment. Her recognition that chimpanzees have feelings became foundational to animal behavior science and shaped zoo practices. The Oakland Zoo applied that approach when, after months of coordination with the Association of Zoos & Aquariums and the Siamang Species Survival Plan, it introduced Raya to Sid to address Sid's loneliness after losing companion Hahnumahn.
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