Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old.
“The Jane Goodall Institute learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall Dbe, Messenger of the UN Peace and the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute died due to natural causes”, the Institute Said on social networks. “She was in California as part of her oratory tour in the United States.”
Goodall’s discoveries as Etologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless defender of the protection and restoration of our natural world.
It was July 1960 when Goodall, 26 years old at that time, entered Tanzania for the first time and began its important research on Chimpanzees in nature. Throughout his study of the species, Goodall showed that primates show a variety of behaviors similar to humans, such as communicating, developing individual personalities and making and using their own tools.
Jane Goodall appears in the television special “Miss Goodall and the world of chimpanzees” originally broadcast on CBS, on December 22, 1965, in the Gombe Stream Stream National Park, Tanzania.
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Among the most surprising discoveries that Goodall made when the investigation began were “how we seem” the chimpanzees, he told ABC News in 2020.
“His behavior, with his gestures, kissing, hugging, taken from his hands and giving palmaditas on his back,” he said. “… the fact that they can actually be violent and brutal and have a kind of war, but also loving an altruistic.
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