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<\/p>\nJane Goodall, known for her ground-breaking studies involving chimpanzees, has died aged 91.<\/p>\n
A post on her institute’s Facebook page said she died on Wednesday morning from natural causes while in California as part of a speaking tour.<\/p>\n
“Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world,” said the post.<\/p>\n
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\n Jane Goodall with husband Hugo van lawick in 1974. Pic: AP<\/p>\n
Goodall was widely considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees.<\/p>\n
She began her research at 26, observing the primates in east Africa and revealing their capability to engage in complex social behaviours.<\/p>\n
Goodall also gave chimps names instead of numbers, observed their distinct personalities, their use of tools, and incorporated family relationships and emotions into her work.<\/p>\n
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\n Goodall gets a kiss from chimpanzee Pola in 2004. Pic: AP<\/p>\n
The London-born expert appeared in many National Geographic programmes and magazines, and laid a path for other female primatologists and conservationists, including Dian Fossey (portrayed by Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas In The Mist).<\/p>\n
Later in her career, she shifted more towards climate advocacy after seeing animal habitats diminishing and spoke to Sky News about the issue in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n Goodall was made a dame in 2003 and earlier this year was awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n Image: Growing up in Bournemouth, she said she always dreamed of working with wild animals and that her passion was stoked by the gift of a toy gorilla from her father and reading books such as Tarzan and Dr Dolittle.<\/p>\n Goodall got her wish in 1957 when she saved enough money for a boat trip to Kenya.<\/p>\n It was there that she met famed anthropologist and paleontologist Dr Louis Leakey, an encounter that set up her career studying primates.<\/p>\n 2:28<\/p>\n June: Wildlife across Africa is ‘disappearing’<\/p>\n This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.<\/p>\n Please refresh the page for the latest version.<\/p>\n You can receive breaking news alerts on a smartphone or tablet via the Sky News app<\/a>. You can also follow us on WhatsApp<\/a> and subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> to keep up with the latest news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jane Goodall, known for her ground-breaking studies involving chimpanzees, has died aged 91. A post on her institute’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-173438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Pic:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/skynews-jane-goodall-conservationist_7038430.jpg\")
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