![]() ![]() In the scientific world of the era this was unprecedented, even “not-done”. ![]() ![]() “Once you have been close to chimps for a while they are as easy to tell apart as your classmates,” Jane wrote in her book.īecause the chimps were individuals, it made sense for Jane to start giving them names. For one, she started to recognise them as individuals, with individual traits and characters. “She was able to observe them for a long time in their natural habitat.”įrom her unique position, Goodall saw the chimpanzees differently than most scientists at the time. “Jane was the first person in the world to eventually gain the trust of the animals living in the area,” Lisette van den Berg, behavioural biologist of primates (UU) and long-time fan of Jane, explains. She wrote down her experiences in the book My Life with the Chimpanzees. For the first time, we saw chimps for what (or who) they really are. As a young primatologist she travelled to the deep jungle of Tanzania, where she pioneered new ways of studying human’s closest living relative, the chimpanzee. For a long time, chimpanzees were simply misunderstood. ![]()
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