She wanted to talk to the animals like Doctor Doolittle. And she did. Once known as Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, Jane Goodall has made her life mission one that included talking to animals. Primarily the wild chimpanzees of Tanzania. She spent 60 years studying their social and family interactions while fighting to preserve and conserve their habitats.
Her work put her in the middle of a chimpanzee community where instead of numbering the primates, she gave them names like Fifi and Frodo. She discovered the more she observed them, the more she recognized distinct personalities amongst the community. They also like to hug and kiss each other. She dispelled a long held belief that only humans used tools and that chimpanzees were vegetarians.
Chimpanzees are hunters, and they have no problem fashioning
tools to get what they want. They can be brutal. They would arm themselves for conflict if necessary.
Over the years, Jane found that she was considered a member of the troop,
and the chimps ranked her the lowest on their social order. They did warm up to
her, and she stayed until an aggressive male took over the troop and ran her
out.
She was the mother of chimpanzees, and she established the
Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 where they fight to preserve and protect the
habitats and the lives of the troops. She endured criticism for her work, as
well as had her belief in God questioned.
Jane did take time out to become a mother of a human. Grub.
His real name is Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick, but she called him Grub. She was
so concerned about his well-being while she was with the chimps, that she built
and cage and put Grub in it.
He grew up in the wilds of Africa, and now he lives in her
old home and is an animal right’s activist. There is a 2017 documentary titled Jane that features 140 hours of film
that Hugo shot of his mother.
Mother of one or mother of all chimpanzees, Jane gave us
insights into mothers and children that are no different no matter how much fur they
have or don't have.
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