It was a hug worthy only of the woman who redefined man. For Jane Goodall, that 2014 embrace with a rescued chimp called Wounda at her institute's sanctuary in the Republic of Congo was yet another ...

Jane Goodall, an iconic figure in conservation whose work transformed human-animal relations, is perhaps best known for the trailblazing research she carried out with chimpanzees at Gombe Stream ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall's decades of research into the lives of wild chimpanzees radically changed our understanding ...

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91. The Jane Goodall Institute announced the ...

Their work inspired others to try and replicate their results, including a Columbia University professor named Herbert Terrace. In 1973 he acquired a chimpanzee that he named Nim Chimpsky, in ...

Renowned anthropologist Louis Leakey chose Goodall to do this work precisely because she was not formally trained. When she turned up in Leakey's office in Tanzania in 1957, at age 23, Leakey ...

“Dr. Goodall’s life and work not only made an indelible mark on our understanding of chimpanzees and other species, but also of humankind and the environments we all share. She inspired curiosity, ...