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Help students celebrate Women's History Month with this curated collection of resources. A key observation Jane Goodall noted while studying at Gombe Stream National Park was that chimpanzees made and used tools.
Prior to this discovery, scientists accepted that trait as a definition of humanity. Ethologist and conservationist Jane Goodall redefined what it means to be human and set the standard for how behavioral studies are conducted through her work with wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. Join our community of educators and receive the latest information on National Geographic's resources for you and your students.
Skip to content. Twitter Facebook Pinterest Google Classroom. Observing Animal Behavior Ethology is the study of animal behavior.
Tool Use in Animals Jane Goodall made several novel observations of chimpanzee behavior during her studies in Gombe Stream National Park, including their use of tools. Analyzing Habitat Loss One major threat to chimpanzee survival is habitat loss.
What Does it Mean to be Human? Tree of Life While observing chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Jane Goodall identified chimpanzee behaviors and characteristics resembling those of humans.
Poaching Poaching is hunting, trapping, or fishing illegally and it threatens wildlife species worldwide, including chimpanzees for bush meat or pets and elephants for their ivory.
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Because to me, evil is not just responding to an aggressive impulse which is what chimps do , but sitting deliberately in cold blood and planning the destruction of another human being or planning a war. Just like them, we have a good side and a dark side. But I think our dark side is worse because we are capable of evil.
I think our good side is better. But we can be altruistic thinking about the consequences to ourselves and realizing that if we move ahead to help that person, it may have serious negative impacts on us, but doing it all the same because of this compassion we have. There was this fateful day when you observed a chimpanzee sticking a stalk of grass into a termite hole and then pulling out the stalk that was now covered in termites and eating them.
And that was the turning point. As someone who recognized these human-like traits in nonhuman primates very early on, have you found that that either forces people to expand the circle of humanity, or shrink what they understand human nature to be?
We were on a pinnacle, separated from all the others by an unbridgeable chasm. Why do you think it was so taboo in your early years for scientists to anthropomorphize animals?
I think it was the long arm of religion reaching out. I mean, think of how Darwin was greeted when he got back after the voyage of the Beagle with his theory of evolution. Religion was up in arms immediately, and a lot of scientists believed in religion so they could not believe in evolution.
Do you think humans also have had a tendency to dismiss certain species as unintelligent because we think that intelligence has to look the way it does in humans for it to count as intelligence?
Of course. But there are some ways that animals are highly intelligent in ways that we certainly would be completely stupid. Of course you can. And if you deny the role of empathy, then you deny a very important avenue of research.
When I got to know the chimpanzees really well, I would empathize with them. And then once you come to that understanding, you can step back and put on your scientific hat and try to prove or disprove what you believe to be true. Oh, no, never. Absolutely never. And the thing I was criticized most on was the fact that I talked about chimpanzee aggression probably being innate.
So that led to me talking about some innate aggressive tendencies in humans. But I think it makes sense. How can you possibly look around the world and say that there is not an innate aggressive tendency in humans?
Do you feel like in the years since then, the science has come to back up some of the claims that were controversial early on? Do you feel vindicated? Yes, absolutely. I mean, students today can study animal personality and animal intellect and animal emotion. Science is coming around to understanding that we are part of the animal kingdom. But there are still little pockets of resistance. What would be the implications exactly for how we treat animals and the environment if we did ditch that idea?
Well, the point is, we have to. Huge areas of habitat are destroyed to grow the grain to feed them, massive amounts of fossil fuels are used to prepare the sites, to get the food to the animals and the animals to the slaughter and the meat to the table.
But if you can quietly tell a story, then you may reach the heart. A friend took a job in Kenya, and Goodall decided to join her, working as a waitress to raise funds for her trip. In Nairobi, Goodall was introduced to Louis Leakey, the scientist whose fossil discoveries had finally proved mankind's roots were African, not Asian, as had previously been supposed.
At this time, Leakey was looking for someone to study chimpanzees in the wild and to find evidence of shared ancestry between humans and the great apes. Previous studies of primates had been confined to captive animals but Leakey believed, presciently, that much more could be learned by studying them in the wild. More to the point, Goodall would make a perfect observer, he believed, coming — as she did — "with a mind uncluttered and unbiased by theory", a point that is acknowledged by Goodall.
There was slightly more to the relationship than this, however. Leakey found the presence of this pretty, hazel-eyed blonde too much for him and although then in his late 50s, and married with three children, he bombarded Goodall with protestations of his love.
He also had my whole future in his hands. On the other hand, I thought: 'No thanks. Their friendship survived the incident and Goodall went off to Gombe to study her chimpanzees, while Leakey selected two other female researchers, Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas, to study gorillas and orangutans. Galdikas, like Goodall, is still going strong.
The fate of Fossey, played by Sigourney Weaver in the film Gorillas in the Mist , was to be a grim one, however. Fossey was murdered in after trying to punish local people following incidents in which several of her beloved gorillas were killed. She would say to people, 'Do you know a man who is six foot five and loves gorillas?
And she wasn't diplomatic. She tackled poachers by chasing them and did things that I would not have been brave enough to have done. Sometimes she was very stupid. But she brought the plight of the gorillas to everyone's attention. The violent death of Dian Fossey contrasts with Goodall's relatively peaceful time in Tanzania, although her life at Gombe — on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, north of Kigoma — certainly did not lack incident.
In fact, this ruling may not have been an altogether bad thing because the Belgian Congo had just erupted into civil war and Kigoma was filled with refuges.
They said that was the safest place for us and wouldn't let us go to Gombe for several weeks. Eventually the two women plus a cook made it to the reserve and Goodall began the tricky business of getting Gombe's chimps to accept her. After a few weeks one male, who she named David Greybeard because of his white-tufted chin, let her approach him — tempted by the odd banana — and allowed her to observe him as he foraged for food. It was David Greybeard who Goodall later watched making that leafy tool to obtain termites.
More and more troop members followed suit and Goodall was eventually allowed to observe their behaviour almost as if she was a chimpanzee herself. Slowly she built up a picture of chimp life in all its domestic detail: the grooming, the food-sharing, the status wrangles, and the fights.
At this time scientists were particularly sensitive about giving human attributes to animals. Anthropomorphism was simply not on, they told Goodall when, in the early 60s, she took a PhD at Cambridge at the insistence of Leakey — who was desperate for his protege to gain academic respectability.
I didn't care. I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field. In any case, Goodall who got her PhD in believes it is simple nonsense to say that animals, particularly chimpanzees which are so closely related to humans, do not have personalities.
You know it and I think every single one of those scientists knew it too but because they couldn't prove it, they wouldn't talk about it. But I did talk about it. In a way, my dog Rusty gave me the courage of my convictions.
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