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The Chimpanzee: The Living Link between Man & Beast
In this lecture, Jane Goodall, who has written many popular biology books and is a campaigner for animal conservation, describes her work in the Gombe Stream Game Reserve. Despite political and social upheavals in Africa, Dr Goodal has spent the last 30 years observing and researching the Gombe chimpanzees. She shows how chimpanzees have unique personalities and develop complex psychological, social and political relationships with one another. Biologically only 1% different to humans, the Gombe chimpanzees show remarkably human emotional characteristics, as this book describes.
Edinburgh International Festival Of Science & Technology
Edinburgh International Festival Of Science & Technology
64 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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Jane Goodall
248 books2,624 followersFor the Australian academic and mystery writer, see Professor Jane R. Goodall.
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace was a world-renowned ethologist and activist inspiring greater understanding and action on behalf of the natural world every single day.
Dr. Goodall was best known for groundbreaking studies of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, transformative research that continues to this day as the longest-running wild chimpanzee study in the world. Dr. Goodall was the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, a global conservation, advocacy, animal welfare, research, and youth empowerment organization, including her global Roots & Shoots program.
Dr. Goodall had worked extensively on climate action, human rights, conservation, and animal welfare issues for decades, and was a central voice in the work to advance environmental progress.
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace was a world-renowned ethologist and activist inspiring greater understanding and action on behalf of the natural world every single day.
Dr. Goodall was best known for groundbreaking studies of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, transformative research that continues to this day as the longest-running wild chimpanzee study in the world. Dr. Goodall was the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, a global conservation, advocacy, animal welfare, research, and youth empowerment organization, including her global Roots & Shoots program.
Dr. Goodall had worked extensively on climate action, human rights, conservation, and animal welfare issues for decades, and was a central voice in the work to advance environmental progress.
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June 22, 2021
Captured within this short book is a lecture given by Jane. She talks about her Gombe chimpanzees, including their social structure and behaviors, then discusses the inhumane ways that research chimps are treated and finally ends with a story about how much alike chimps are to humans. She wills us to be kind to our closest animal relatives.
Jane has a way with words and while there's nothing in this book that's not captured in her "bigger" books i.e. Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe & In the Shadow of Man but it's still worth the read for her super-fans!
Plus, some gorgeous photos!
Jane has a way with words and while there's nothing in this book that's not captured in her "bigger" books i.e. Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe & In the Shadow of Man but it's still worth the read for her super-fans!
Plus, some gorgeous photos!
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