Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall (April 3rd 1934 with London -) is a specialist in the Primates. She has, the first, reported that the Singe S use tools to feed. Its later work deeply transforms the manner of seeing the Primate S (as well the Singe S as the Hommes).

Biography

Invited in Kenya by a friend, it meets, at the 23 years age, the doctor Louis Leakey, known for its work on the Chimpanzé S. It becomes its assistant.

Impassioned since its more tender youth by the animals (Vegetarian), it decides, in 1960, to live alone among them, for better observing them and including/understanding them. She settles in the area of the Lac Tanganyika (Tanzania), in what is today the National park of Gombe Stream, to study there manners of the Chimpanzé S. At the beginning, the observation is difficult, the monkeys are savage. They are accustomed little by little to it. It observes them, and discovers, for the first time, by seeing a chimpanzee using a rod to eat Termite S, that the Man is not the only one to use tools!

During the years which follow, its work continues with deeply transforming the manner of seeing the Primate S (as well the Singe S as the Homme S). It initially observed that the chimpanzees are not Végétarien S, but rather Omnivore S, as opposed to what one thought then. But its innumerable work led it to give names to the animals which it côtoyait and thus to give them a Personnalité, thus extracting the primates from a simple image to partly melt the distinction between the primates and the men.

Jane Goodall was then distinguished in protection from the large monkeys, in particular against the Braconnage and the Déboisement.

It is the author of many books and articles, contributed to found sanctuaries protected for the chimpanzees, and received a crowd of prestigious international prizes of which the Prix of Kyoto in 1990.

In 1977, it founded the institute Jane Goodall, and is devoted still today to the defense of these monkeys so close to us, and always threatened of disappearance shortly.

The institute Jane Goodall in France was created in 2004.

Honors

Medal of honor of Tanzania
Hubbard Medal of the National Geographic
Price of Kyoto
Price of the Prince of the Asturies for Research and technique and scientist 2003
Benjamin-Franklin Medal of the Life sciences
Gandhi Price for non-violence
Legion of honor, January 17th 2006

Jane Goodall received in 2002 the title of messenger of peace of the United Nations of their general secretary, Kofi Annan. It was also named lady of the British empire (the female equivalent of the title of knight) of the hands of the queen Elisabeth II.

She received hands of Dominique de Villepin the medal of UNESCO and the legion of honor in January 2006.

Works

In the Shadow off Man of Jane Goodall (in): ISBN 0753809478
Through has Window: My Thirty Years With the Champanzees off Gombe of Jane Goodall (in): ISBN 0618056777

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