Dame Jane Goodall Bibliography

Dame Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall was born on 3th of April 1934 in London, England. Her father was a businessman and her mother was a novelist. When she was a little girl she was given a little toy chimpanzee, which started her interest for chimpanzees. She still has that toy. Being always interested in animals Jane Goodall left for Kenya to live at friend’s farm and to work as a secretary. She soon asked for an appointment with Louise Leaky, an archaeologist and paleontologists, who was doing the research on great apes especially on chimpanzee. When they met she obtained a job as his secretary. In 1960 Jane Goodall started to work in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. In 1962 Goodall obtained her Ph D degree in Etiology, becoming the only eighth person to be allowed to study for a Ph D without first obtaining a BA or B.Sc. Her thesis was titled “Behavior of the Free Ranging Chimpanzees”. In her work Jane Goodall was the first one to discover that chimpanzees are able to feel and express emotions, such as joy and sorrow, and that are capable of reasoning, as well as of establishing life-long relationships, which makes them our closest relatives. The ground breaking Goodall’s observation was her finding that chimpanzees toolmakers, which was previously thought to be exclusively human ability. Unfortunately the other thing that makes chimpanzees similar to humans is there capability to be aggressive and to hunt in an organized way killing monkeys and feeding on their meet. This was yet another Goodall’s groundbreaking discovery. Jane Goodall’s research has shown that humans and chimpanzees have even darker similarities. She discovered that chimpanzees can become very brutal in order to maintain dominance, sometimes killing each other babies and becoming cannibals. Being unconventional as she was, Jane Goodall was also the first researcher who gave names to observed animals instead of numbers.
In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), which supports the Gombe research, and she is worldwide known as a leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitat. Goodall fights animal welfare and rights, and is the former president of Advocates for Animals, an organization that campaigns against the use of animals in medical research, zoos, farming and sport. Goodall is vegetarian and suggests the diet for ethical, environmental, and health reasons. In The Inner World of Farm Animals, Goodall writes that farm animals are "far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent?” Goodall has also said, “Thousands of people who say they 'love' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.”
Goodall has received many honors for her work. She was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2004. In April 2002, Secretary-General Kofi Annan named Goodall a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Her other honors include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the French Legion of Honor, Medal of Tanzania, Japan's prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, the Gandhi-King Award for Nonviolence and the Spanish Prince of Asturias Awards.
Jane Goodall was married twice, and she has a son. When she was asked if she believe in God she answered, “I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I don’t know what to call it. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.”
Bibliography:
Ask.com http://www.ask.com/web?q=dame+jane+goodall&search=&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir
Wiki asweres http://www.answers.com/topic/jane-goodall
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodal
And book “ My life with the chimpanzees”l