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Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91. The Jane Goodall Institute said in post on ...

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National Geographic helped the famous conservationist get her start—and followed her chimpanzee research and advocacy for wildlife in a career that forever changed how we understand animal behavior.

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The National Geographic Explorer dedicated her life not just to chimpanzees, but global conservation. Jane Goodall studied the chimpanzees of Gombe starting in 1960, making hers the longest field ...

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Through her groundbreaking work with chimps in Africa, Goodall helped people understand that animals are sentient and intelligent. Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall’s decades of research into the ...