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Monday, 16 September 2013

Jane Goodall-the chimpanzee observer

Jane Gooddall (born in 1934) is  a British animal researcher. For almost 50 years, she has been studying the behaviour of chimpanzees in Tanzania (Africa). She has discovered, for instance, that chimpanzees use tools like humans, They fish out termites from holes with branches; they also use pairs of stones as hammers and anvils to crack nuts. Jane also discovered that chimpanzees eat not only leaves and fruits but also meat. They hunt down other species of apes, like the small colobus monkeys, and often kill them in a gruesome way. She observed how groups of chimpanzees fight between themselves regularly. To gather sufficient data on all this, she observed chimpanzees for many years, and soon grew very fond of them. She is now campaigning for the protection of these close relatives of ours.

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