Jane

Goodall
 Presentation Outline

Introduction

What Inspired Her

2. What Inspired
Research Findings
1. Introduction Her
Challenges Faced 5. How She Inspired Others
How She
Inspired Others
3. Research 4. Challenges
Findings Faced
Introduction
 Introduction

₪ In the summer of 1960, 26-year-old Jane Goodall

arrived on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in East
Introduction
Africa
What Inspired Her
₪ studied the area's chimpanzee population
Research Findings

Challenges Faced
₪ the trip meant the fulfillment of Jane Goodall's
childhood dream
How She
Inspired Others
₪ At that time, it was unheard of for a
woman to venture into the wilds of the
African forest

₪ Jane’s work in Tanzania would prove

more successful than anyone had imagined
What Inspired Her
 What Inspired Her

 Reading children books (e.g. Dr. DoLittle) and playing with

stuff toys
Introduction When she was just over a year old, Jane’s father
bought her a beautiful, life-like chimpanzee
What Inspired Her stuffed animal. Friends warned her parents that
such a gift would cause nightmares for a young
Research Findings child, but Jane loved the toy very much.

Challenges Faced

How She
Inspired Others

 drew inspiration from people who demonstrated

compassion
Research Findings
 Research Findings

• Co-operative Hunting
- Red Colobus monkeys
Introduction

What Inspired Her

• Chimpanzees are omnivores instead of herbivores
Research Findings

Challenges Faced • Redefining humans

How She
Inspired Others
• 4-year war

• Naming chimpanzees
- they have unique personalities
Challenges Faced
 Challenges Faced
• worked under Professor Louis Leakey, who then sent her to
Gombe, Africa, to study the residence chimpanzee
community
Introduction

What Inspired Her • Needed her mother to accompany her to Africa at first (due
to restrictions)
Research Findings

Challenges Faced
• Chimpanzees were very wary of Jane Goodall initially
How She
Inspired Others

• Subsequently, she had to enter University so that her

researches will be taken seriously

• Professor Louis Leaky then sent her to Cambridge to study

How She Inspired Others
 How She Inspired Others

• At her time, female scientists were always discredited, but she

proved to the world that she could come up with sound theories
about the chimpanzees and their way of life
Introduction

What Inspired Her

• Jane Goodall Institute
Research Findings - promote conservation of chimpanzees in the wild and
in the zoo
Challenges Faced

How She
- raising funds
Inspired Others
- giving talks all over the world