{"id":183717,"date":"2025-10-01T23:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183717\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T23:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:40:07","slug":"an-extraordinary-legacy-tributes-after-chimpanzee-expert-jane-goodall-dies-age-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183717\/","title":{"rendered":"‘An extraordinary legacy’: Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Jane Goodall, the ground-breaking conservationist who revolutionised study of great apespublished at 21:38 BST<\/p>\n

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Dr Jane Goodall, who died today at 91, devoted her life to the study and conservation of chimpanzees and the other great apes.<\/p>\n

Through her pioneering new ways to study them, Goodall discovered that chimps used tools, created complex societies and could be so aggressive they could even kill one another. <\/p>\n

This suggested that chimps and humans are likely to have common ancestors – and was ground-breaking information.<\/p>\n

Goodall\u2019s work made waves amongst her fellow researchers, and the public enthusiastically responded to her revelations. <\/p>\n

The idea that chimps and humans were related spurred debates about what it means to be human, inspiring a rethink on animal rights. Her books were so widely read that when one of Jane\u2019s subjects Flo died in 1972, The Sunday Times ran an obituary.<\/p>\n

Goodall remained active until the days before her death, engaged on a speaking tour of the US, and travelled the world widely to discuss her life and campaign to better understand the natural world.<\/p>\n

She was recognised earlier this year with a Medal of Freedom by then-President Joe Biden, in addition to her damehood in the UK and other international plaudits.<\/p>\n

Today tributes highlighted her remarkable impact on our understanding of wildlife, and her hero status among fellow naturalists.<\/p>\n

We’re ending our live coverage, but you can read more in our article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Jane Goodall, the ground-breaking conservationist who revolutionised study of great apespublished at 21:38 BST 21:38 BST Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-183717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}