The British ethologist and primatologist Jane Goodall has died on Wednesday at age 91 for natural causes, as reported on her social networks the institute that bears her name and that she founded in 1977 with the aim of promoting the protection of ecosystems and biodiversity. Goodall stood out for its innovative methods and fascinating discoveries about the behavior of wild chimpanzees in Gombe (Tanzania). At the time of his death, he was in California as part of his conference tour in the United States.
Born in London, she grew up in the postwar period in the family home of Bournemouth, in southern England. At 23, he began to make his dream travel to Kenya, where he worked with the famous anthropologist Louis Leakey, until he sent her in 1960 to Gombe (Tanzania) with the risky mission of first investigating the wild chimpanzees in the area. The results of their field investigations marked the scientific community and fascinated the entire world through the documentaries of National Geographic, among others. His work shed light into the until then unknown world of chimpanzees, revealing their instrumental behavior and social structure.
She herself told that she was four when she came on vacation with her mother to the Bournemouth, where she would later spend several years. It was a large farm with cows, pigs and horses, all together. Then, a little Goodall became obsessed in finding out how it was possible for an egg to leave a chicken, so he hid in one of the six chickens in the house and waited. He endured squatting four hours until he saw the brown bird slightly lift his wings and drop a white egg on the straw. That was, according to the ethologist, the birth of a small researcher.
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