[HN Gopher] Jane Goodall has died
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Jane Goodall has died
Author : jaredwiener
Score : 823 points
Date : 2025-10-01 18:10 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| toomuchtodo wrote:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall_Institute
| FireBeyond wrote:
| The sheer volume of a lifetime's effort in studying chimpanzees
| and primate behavior is huge. Her contributions are priceless.
|
| No more will chimpanzees be able to conduct research with that
| tramp (https://screenrant.com/far-side-controversial-comic-strip-
| ja...).
| bombcar wrote:
| > When the strip ran, the Jane Goodall Institute was not
| amused, promptly drafting a cease and desist letter. Larson
| maintained he had no ill will towards Doctor Goodall. At the
| time of the controversy, Goodall had been out of the country,
| but saw the cartoon for herself when she returned-and loved it.
| Goodall instructed the institute to drop the issue. In the
| aftermath, Goodall reached out to Larson, and the two became
| friends; Larson even licensed the cartoon to the Institute to
| produce a t-shirt that was then used to raise funds. Goodall
| even went so far as to write a preface for one of The Far
| Side's collected editions.
|
| Good(all?) on her, it's nice to see leaders both have a sense
| of humor and actually lead.
| thr0waway001 wrote:
| In heaven with Koko
| eej71 wrote:
| I suspect Koko's capabilities were completely over sold.
| Rendello wrote:
| I was fascinated by Koko's abilities and took them at face
| value until I saw her famous climate change speech:
|
| > I am gorilla. I am flowers, animals. I am nature. Man Koko
| love. Earth Koko love. But Man stupid. Stupid! Koko sorry.
| Koko cry. Time hurry! Fix Earth! Help Earth! Hurry! Protect
| Earth. Nature see you. Thank you.
|
| I saw that and felt like I was in crazy land. That's
| supposedly the kind of talking Koko's been doing this whole
| time?? Turns out, there was a lot of government funding into
| ape communication in the 70s, and when researchers figured
| out that apes can't meaningfully communicate, the funding
| dried up. Her handler, Penny Patterson, pivoted from research
| to PR. And how.
|
| https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/what-does-koko-know-
| about-...
| typpilol wrote:
| There's a lot of evidence to suggest most of her research
| was fraudulent
| eej71 wrote:
| The other thing that stood out for me was - if that was so
| successful - why do we not have other Kokos? Did we just
| get lucky and find the one genius who could do this or did
| we maybe trick ourselves?
| jmdeon wrote:
| From the Snopes:
|
| > Some viewers took the video a little too literally,
| however, and were surprised at Koko's pithy and timely
| exhortation to heed the perils of global warming. But
| nothing about the video indicates that Koko can actually
| entertain, much less communicate to humans, thoughts about
| environmentalism.
|
| Personally I never took it literally. I saw the video and
| knew right away it was just a marketing stunt, but that
| didn't mean I suddenly thought research into ape
| intelligence and language should stop. I do wish they had
| made it more clear that it was just a stunt because I'm
| sure people like you felt mislead.
|
| I am still fascinated with Koko and the brains of great
| apes! Also fascinating that they've never asked a question
| but at least one grey parrot has.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)#cite_note-
| jordan...
| Rendello wrote:
| There's some interesting reading here (the section and
| the page generally):
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language#Criticis
| m_a...
|
| ---
|
| Regarding:
|
| > I do wish they had made it more clear that it was just
| a stunt because I'm sure people like you felt mislead.
|
| People like me felt like "what the hell was that?", maybe
| :D
|
| The more you look into Penny Patterson's claims, the more
| you go "what the hell?"
| karmakurtisaani wrote:
| And Harambe.
| libraryatnight wrote:
| I remember in grade school so many in the class being inspired by
| her, then as I grew up every time I encountered her on television
| or in print she was equally inspiring, empathetic, and
| informative. I will miss her.
| mapmeld wrote:
| I really appreciated her speaking to young people, even riding
| the NYC subway for the first time to record "Subway Takes" last
| year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkwo6JPV00
|
| She also was speaking on a panel just a week ago:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df0GWlZm3gk
| diggan wrote:
| She was also on Spanish TV just five months ago, I was a bit
| surprised when she appeared there. Seems most of it is on
| YouTube as well (hoping it's not geo-restricted):
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE7lnl4ah9s
| lomase wrote:
| I will add it is one of the most watched shows on prime time.
| cammikebrown wrote:
| My friend had tickets to see her in LA this Friday.
| aethrum wrote:
| crazy how you can just be this alive one year and then dead the
| next. I get 91 is old, but still
| bobmcnamara wrote:
| People don't think it's like that but it is, for all of us,
| eventually.
| jimbokun wrote:
| That is truly a gift, to be able to be that active until
| almost the end of your life.
| lonelyasacloud wrote:
| Highly rate her episode of the BBC's The Life Scientific
| https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jmsd
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| NYT obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/obituaries/jane-
| goodall-d...
| noufalibrahim wrote:
| This is sad to hear. I saw her at a lecture about 20 years ago. I
| remember her passion for her subject and how elegant she was.
| maxglute wrote:
| When I was young, not knowing who Jane Goodall was, I was dragged
| into lunch by event planner who showed her around Beijing, and
| wondered why this lady was talking about chimpanzees so much.
| This was the year the Nokia released Snake, I remember getting
| enamoured/distracted by her monkey talk and lost a near perfect
| snake run.
| thom wrote:
| Sorry for your loss.
| byearthithatius wrote:
| The snake game or her death?
| butlike wrote:
| Well, technically apes don't have tails, monkeys do, so the
| chimpanzee talk would be an ape talk. Learned that from her too
| onraglanroad wrote:
| In the same sense that "there's no such thing as a tree" or
| "there's no such thing as a fish", there's"no such thing as a
| monkey".
| IAmBroom wrote:
| ... unless you include apes.
| AlotOfReading wrote:
| Monkeys are just the simiiformes minus the apes. That's
| just a paraphyly, which is totally fine.
|
| If you don't like paraphyletic labels for aesthetic
| reasons, just include the apes to make it monophyletic. The
| main reason we don't is that many people have strong,
| visceral reactions to being called a monkey.
|
| You can't do that to fish or trees without including a
| bunch of things that are obviously not trees and fish.
| pinkmuffinere wrote:
| "If it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey, even if it has
| a monkey-kind-of shape. It if doesn't have a tail it's not a
| monkey; if it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey: it's an
| ape."
| technothrasher wrote:
| With the one exception being Curious George.
| type0 wrote:
| Yeah but his tail was amputated, my neighbour had a cat
| without tail, bitten off by a dog or something, it's not
| that uncommon.
| pinkmuffinere wrote:
| Perhaps the 'curiousness' of George was not his
| personality trait, but rather the curious affliction of
| his missing tail.
| throwaway29303 wrote:
| Godspeed.
| seper8 wrote:
| To anyone who hasn't seen it (especially those who are fans of
| Philip Glass) watch this biopic:
| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7207238
| vixen99 wrote:
| Jane Goodall: "My question was: How far along our human path,
| which has led to hatred and evil and full-scale war, have
| chimpanzees traveled?"
| jasoneckert wrote:
| You don't have to be a biologist or zoologist to appreciate what
| Jane Goodall brought to the world.
|
| Her work transcended science. It touched on compassion, respect
| for all living beings, and a deep curiosity about the natural
| world that inspired generations. She didn't just study
| chimpanzees; she taught us what it means to observe with empathy,
| to advocate with conviction, and to act with hope. Her legacy
| will echo for a very long time.
| rampareddy wrote:
| Beautifully put! Her legacy will inspire generations to come.
| adriand wrote:
| She was one of my heroes. I'm terribly saddened by this loss.
|
| Imagine what kind of world we would live in if we put these
| kinds of human beings in charge instead.
| jimbokun wrote:
| The first nations to do so would be invaded and conquered by
| their more militaristic neighbors.
| alsetmusic wrote:
| That's sad news. She completely changed the way we thought about
| primate intelligence. Fun fact: she really liked the Far Side
| cartoon about her.
|
| https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/...
| Cuuugi wrote:
| The full saga is humourous. from wiki.
|
| Gary Larson cartoon incident
|
| One of Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons shows two chimpanzees
| grooming. One finds a blonde human hair on the other and
| inquires, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane
| Goodall tramp?"[114] Goodall herself was in Africa at the time.
| The Jane Goodall Institute thought the cartoon was in bad taste
| and had its lawyers draft a letter to Larson and his
| distribution syndicate in which they described the cartoon as
| an "atrocity". They were stymied by Goodall herself: when she
| returned and saw the cartoon, she stated that she found the
| cartoon amusing.[115]
|
| Since then, all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this
| cartoon have gone to the Jane Goodall Institute. Goodall wrote
| a preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of
| the controversy, and the institute's letter was included next
| to the cartoon in the complete Far Side collection.[116] She
| praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and
| contrast the behaviour of humans and animals. In 1988, when
| Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania,[115] he
| was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| > In 1988, when Larson visited Goodall's research facility in
| Tanzania,[115] he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.
|
| That last sentence is missing from the Wikipedia page. What
| is the source on it?
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side#Jane_Goodall_cart.
| ..
| dmd wrote:
| It's mentioned here
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasakela_chimpanzee_community
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| Jesus! Frodo sounds like a bastard.
|
| > Frodo's aggression was not limited to colobus monkeys
| and other chimpanzees. In May 2002, he killed a 14-month-
| old human child that the niece of a member of the
| research team had carried into his territory.[61] As a
| result, the Tanzanian National Parks Department
| considered killing Frodo.[61] In 1988, he attacked
| visiting Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson, leaving him
| bruised and scratched.[61] Frodo had a history of
| attacking the researchers observing him; Goodall was
| attacked by Frodo on multiple occasions and, in 1989, the
| ape beat her head so violently her neck was nearly
| broken.[61]
| IncreasePosts wrote:
| Frodo also impregnated his own mother
|
| https://blog.michael-lawrence-
| wilson.com/2014/01/19/frodo-30...
| typpilol wrote:
| How did they not put him down after he killed an infant?
| That's crazy
| sjburt wrote:
| On the Jane Goodall page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan
| e_Goodall#Gary_Larson_carto...
| kulahan wrote:
| Everyone's fighting for Jane Goodall but Jane Goodall
| apparently
| xorbax wrote:
| Why do you say that? I'm not sure how that follows.
| kulahan wrote:
| It's a joke about both Frodo the Chimp _and_ the Jane
| Goodall institute were defending her more
| enthusiastically than necessary
| ryandrake wrote:
| Always amusing when a bunch of lawyers over-react to
| something, supposedly on their client's behalf, and then when
| the client finds out about it, they have to talk the lawyers
| out of it and tell them to chill. I've always wondered if
| lawyers are born without a sense of humor or if they lose it
| during one of the semesters of law school.
| apercu wrote:
| And that, to all you aspiring entrepreneurs, is how you deal
| with shit. Please don't take your cues from our current
| industry and political "leaders".
|
| Tech (and business, and politics) tends to attract a lot of
| people who are convinced they already know everything and who
| could probably benefit from a little more confidence and
| perspective.
|
| That combination makes for a lot of thin-skinned bullshit. I
| could name names, but you all know the people I am talking
| about.
| cjfd wrote:
| I read one or maybe some (don't remember anymore) of her books
| about 15 or 20 years ago. Clearly a great person.
| Workaccount2 wrote:
| Wow she was just featured in an interview with the WSJ Journal
| podcast on Friday. Definitely worth a listen. Such a shame to
| hear this
| inglor_cz wrote:
| The gap between us and the chimpanzees is, at the same time,
| "tantalizingly small" and "too big".
|
| We have learnt to communicate with them, but they also don't seem
| to ask questions, at least not the way that humans do.
|
| There is obvious intelligence in their eyes and deliberation in
| their movements, but they seem to be content with an almost
| static culture. Which was also true for the Neanderthals.
|
| What was the last subtle mutation that prodded our species onto
| the road of intellectual curiosity?
|
| We still don't know.
| baxtr wrote:
| Maybe asking annoying questions?
| inglor_cz wrote:
| Maybe :)
|
| To elaborate, there seems to be a difference between physical
| curiosity and intellectual curiosity.
|
| Many mammals, especially when young, are very curious about
| their environment, peeking, sniffing, burrowing in the ground
| etc. So are human children.
|
| But the ability to ask more abstract questions "why do the
| stars shine?" does seem to be limited to humans alone, and
| maybe not even all humans. And it is very uncertain if
| archaic humans had it as well.
| DFHippie wrote:
| For most of human history cultural change was extremely slow,
| so slow as to be imperceptible. I'm not sure the neanderthals
| experienced any less dynamic a culture than the modern humans
| living at the same time.
|
| Perhaps expecting change makes change more likely. Also, when
| things are scarce and life is tenuous you are less likely to
| experiment. Why waste the resources? Why take the risk? When
| surplus calories became commonplace is when cultural change
| took off.
| inglor_cz wrote:
| "Also, when things are scarce and life is tenuous you are
| less likely to experiment. Why waste the resources? Why take
| the risk? When surplus calories became commonplace is when
| cultural change took off."
|
| True, but not the entire picture either. From what we know,
| even hunters and gatherers living in inhospitable regions
| have a rich oral culture and extensive pantheons of gods,
| demigods and legendary heroes. There seems to be something in
| us humans that yearns for more than just calories.
| DFHippie wrote:
| > There seems to be something in us humans that yearns for
| more than just calories.
|
| And we have no evidence that we are different in this from
| Neanderthals (arguably also humans). There is evidence of
| cultural variation among chimps, so there must also be
| cultural change. Do they yearn for things more than
| calories? Well, they play. They are curious.
|
| I am extremely skeptical of claims that humans are special.
| We are strongly motivated to find this to be true. On the
| one hand, it flatters us. On the other hand, it justifies
| believing we are ethically distinct. This same way of
| thinking has been applied to other humans with results we
| now deplore.
|
| Are we special, the chosen creatures? Maybe. We sure want
| to believe we are. It's fun and useful to be special! But
| maybe we should be cautious leaping to that conclusion. I
| think Jane Goodall was of this mind as well.
| inglor_cz wrote:
| "Special" means different things for different people.
|
| For me, humans are special in their capability to create
| extensive culture. That does not mean that $deity has
| created us in its image, it may well be a random fluke of
| evolution.
|
| But we haven't seen a cave painting done by non-humans
| yet, nor heard a story narrated by them.
| AlotOfReading wrote:
| I'm pretty skeptical that cultural change was meaningfully
| slower (except as limited by effective population sizes).
| Cultural change for early humans is nearly invisible in the
| material record. Imagine that all archaeologists of the far
| future find nothing from the current era except iphones
| without working storage. Do they indicate a unified global
| culture without cultural change outside WWDC?
|
| Obviously not, even though there _are_ aspects of a shared
| global culture indicated by their global distribution.
| Material culture is related to culture, but it 's an
| imperfect and imprecise record. The same issue occurs with
| correlating culture with genetics or language.
| DFHippie wrote:
| Sure, but this is true of neanderthals as well. So we can't
| say we are especially creative or dynamic in our culture.
| We can say that our material culture, that small fragment
| of it that was preserved, was static.
| AlotOfReading wrote:
| That was the point: I also wouldn't say that about
| neanderthals.
|
| The evidence on the ground is of course, limited. But
| it's a fairly common view among
| anthropologists/archaeologists that our perspective on
| ancient societies is immensely limited by the material
| record, hence the generally positive reception to _Dawn
| of Everything_ despite its sketchy details and
| interpretations.
| fullstop wrote:
| This was ages ago when I was in college, but the theory then
| was the ability to walk upright freed our hands to do other
| things. Chimps primarily knuckle-walk, so they can't easily
| carry objects (food, tools, etc) from point A to point B.
| bee_rider wrote:
| What's this about Neanderthals?
| nerpderp82 wrote:
| So many unsubstantiated claims, you find this pattern in
| someone infected with exceptionalism.
| inglor_cz wrote:
| Ok, show me apes who unambiguously ask abstract questions.
|
| The Neanderthal claim is what you can call unsubstantiated
| (so, one claim, not so many), but I would like to draw your
| attention to the extreme stability of the Mousterien
| industry. No _Homo sapiens sapiens_ industry comes close to
| this level of stability.
|
| "infected with exceptionalism"
|
| So, we aren't exceptional at all? How do you square this
| rejection with the fact that you have never encountered, say,
| a written comment by a member of another species?
|
| The word "infected" is very negative. I like intelligent
| animals, but no one except for us has, for example, as
| versatile hands as we do.
| xeonmc wrote:
| For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that
| he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved
| so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all
| the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a
| good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always
| believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for
| precisely the same reasons. - The Hitchhiker's
| Guide to the Galaxy
| inglor_cz wrote:
| Yeah, I read it too, but let's not take the book as a holy
| one.
|
| Dolphins are plenty smart, but their absence of a material
| culture also leaves them exposed to various forces beyond
| their control.
|
| Are dolphin moms not grieving when their baby gets eaten by
| killer whales?
|
| This sort of threats is ubiquitous in nature, but almost
| unknown in a civilization.
|
| True nature is brutal.
| cldwalker wrote:
| Thanks to Jane for her contributions. Some great quotes from her:
| "We have a choice to use the gift of our lives to make the world
| a better place." and "If we kill off the wild, then we are
| killing a part of our souls."
| ndegruchy wrote:
| What a phenomenal woman, scientist and activist. We could use
| more people like her.
|
| Rest in peace, Jane.
| revjx wrote:
| I saw her talk in London earlier this year. She was hilarious,
| eloquent, and inspiring. I found listening to her quite moving in
| a way I hadn't anticipated.
|
| Remarkable woman. I feel thankful to have had the chance to just
| stand there and listen to her and look around at all the other
| rapt faces around me.
| andyjohnson0 wrote:
| Sad to read this. But also a long life well used and, I hope,
| well lived. As well as helping us to understand some of our
| companions on this planet, she helped us humans to see ourselves
| more clearly too.
| kulahan wrote:
| I think I finally kinda understand what it means when someone
| says they're personally touched by the loss of a celebrity. I
| really will miss this lady.
| aiauthoritydev wrote:
| Sad day. Some of these folks dedicate their lives to otherwise
| thankless job/work with such dedication has always made me feel
| so positive about humanity in general I do understand when
| religious people do it but Goodall like people are modern day
| sages.
| bostonpete wrote:
| Not sure "thankless" really applies here. She enjoyed a sort of
| celebrity status for the past 40-50 years and was universally
| loved.
| pnw wrote:
| Sad news. She lived an amazing life. I'll never forget seeing her
| and Nathan Myhrvold greet each other like chimps at a book
| signing in Seattle.
| nerpderp82 wrote:
| You mean greet each other like a chimp and a baboon.
| rmason wrote:
| She last appeared in Detroit at the Fisher theatre just three
| weeks ago. Knew some folks who attended and they raved about her
| one person show. Thought I might catch her next time she's there.
| But I didn't realize how old she was or I might have made it more
| of a priority. She was pretty high energy for someone in their
| nineties.
| givehimagun wrote:
| I just saw her two weeks ago taping her interview for Overheard
| with Evan Smith. She was in top notch form and had the audience
| at the edge of our seats and in tears at moments. I am glad I
| got to go -- but I am sad the world lost Jane.
|
| https://video.austinpbs.org/video/jane-goodall-knw3gq/
| boxerab wrote:
| "We cannot hide away from human population growth, because it
| underlies so many of the other problems. All these things we talk
| about wouldn't be a problem if the world was the size of the
| population that there was 500 years ago."
|
| -- Goodall at 2002 WEF panel discussion on Amazon rainforest
|
| The population 500 years ago was around 500 million. The only way
| we return to this level is de-industrialization.
|
| Paul Ehrlich wrote "The Population Bomb" almost 60 years ago -
| all of his predictions turned out to be dead wrong.
| nntwozz wrote:
| Yeah I've seen this before, we could all drive V12s and eat
| only beef but it's not a very meaningful insight. We're going
| to stabilize around 10 billion by 2080 according to projections
| and then decline, hopefully reaching some kind of Star Trek
| utopia at some point.
|
| We came from the caves, we didn't know any better we just
| multiplied like a cancer. More population also brings more
| benefits, more geniuses more inventions etc.
|
| The trick is doing it without wars and inequality, good luck
| with that.
| dingnuts wrote:
| > hopefully reaching some kind of Star Trek utopia at some
| point
|
| it is so dangerous and naive to think that utopia is
| possible, even if we all could agree that Star Trek is one,
| which we shall not, because I certainly do not think its
| depiction of watered down "luxury space communism with
| military ranks" is a desirable society.
| jimbokun wrote:
| That's the real trouble with Utopia, differing ideas on
| what kind of Utopia we want.
| spockz wrote:
| The world/utopia as described in Star Trek is a world where
| there is no poverty and free electricity. You describe
| Starfleet. Obviously, the series do contain elitism.
| Joining Starfleet is seen as prestigious. And even on Earth
| there are slums during the time of the federation. So the
| "Utopia" is not complete. And Starfleet is necessary to
| protect the utopia from outside influences.
|
| It is largely based on the premise of having copious
| amounts basically free energy, free food (through
| replicators), safety, and a wide open universe for settlers
| to join when they do not want to stay in the Federation.
| Basically, it is based on the absence of contention of
| resources. Until we have that, either through shrinking or
| expansions of habitat, we will retain conflict.
| jimbokun wrote:
| We have improved a lot on eliminating wars front.
|
| Inequality not so much but much progress has been made in
| eliminating abject poverty.
| psunavy03 wrote:
| Utopia literally means "no place" for a reason. We're always
| going to be just what we are right now . . . humans.
| dingnuts wrote:
| to advocate for the death of 8 billion people is a hell of a
| stance. there's pro genocide and then there's... I guess this
| is just hating the whole species.
| lIl-IIIl wrote:
| I think she advocating for fewer births. The 8 billion deaths
| would eventually happen by themselves, most of them of old
| age.
| ryandrake wrote:
| In order to achieve this, though, we desperately need to
| get every country well below replacement-level fertility
| rate, and sustain that for a long, long time. Not sure it's
| possible, _particularly_ when some political factions still
| consider "below replacement" to be a bad thing.
| lIl-IIIl wrote:
| It's happening though. Birthrate in many countries are
| below replacement rate, and birthrates in all countries
| have declined:
|
| https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2025/09/11
| /hu....
| jacksnipe wrote:
| She's not doing either. In that same conversation, she goes
| on to talk about how we don't live in that world and can't
| return there, and what the implications should be for
| policy.
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| The thing is that if you depopulate by reducing the birth
| rate, you end up in a situation where you have a whole lot
| of old people and very few young people, which cannot be
| sustained.
| lIl-IIIl wrote:
| Why?
| jacksnipe wrote:
| If I'm not mistaken, she goes on to say "but we don't live in
| that world, and so we must..." and goes on to argue for policy
| that doesn't neglect the poorest and least fortunate members of
| society.
| NoMoreNicksLeft wrote:
| >The only way we return to this level is de-industrialization.
|
| Unfortunately, we will return to that level. Then 25 years
| later, we'll be only half that number (or worse).
|
| >all of his predictions turned out to be dead wrong.
|
| _Hilariously_ wrong, you mean. I especially like the ones
| about how the UK would be filled with cannibal savages by the
| 1980s, because everyone would be starving.
| archon810 wrote:
| Oh wow, I was just listening to her interview with the WSJ The
| Journal podcast a few days ago. Ryan Knutson may have been her
| last interview.
|
| https://pca.st/episode/a724a8f6-b269-4a86-af32-18932f1efbf2
| bananaflag wrote:
| When I was 10, I was bored one day and my grandma brought me from
| a neighbour "In the Shadow of Man" to read, which I loved. I
| don't know anyone else who read that book.
|
| The weird thing is just today I had recommended that book to a
| friend.
| westurner wrote:
| Jane Goodall was a United Nations Messenger of Peace.
|
| Jane Goodall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall
|
| "Dr. Jane Goodall Teaches Conservation"
| https://www.masterclass.com/classes/jane-goodall-teaches-con...
| westurner wrote:
| This one is more about the "apes" (primates),
|
| "Primatologist Answers Ape Questions From Twitter"
| https://youtube.com/watch?v=z4BmXSBXz-c
| moshegramovsky wrote:
| I saw her speak once many years ago. We would all be lucky to
| have a life as long and impactful as hers. May her memory be a
| blessing / zkrvnh lbrkh
| rvz wrote:
| Truly exceptional and outstanding.
|
| RIP.
| evanb wrote:
| If you find Jane Goodall inspirational, you may be delighted to
| learn about Anne Innis Dagg [0], whose studies of wild giraffe
| predates Goodall's study of chimps. The documentary "The Woman
| Who Loves Giraffes" [1] is fantastic and has 100% on Rotten
| Tomatoes. The reason you might not know Dagg's name is
| essentially that she was denied tenure for being a woman.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Innis_Dagg
|
| [1] https://thewomanwholovesgiraffes.com/
| zephyreon wrote:
| As a young person I really appreciated how she worked to connect
| with our generation. She was such an inspiration.
| devinegan wrote:
| Jane came to my high school and I forged a pass to sneak in to
| her talk. I am not sure why every class didn't get the
| opportunity to see her, but I am glad I did. RIP
| adidoit wrote:
| Sad to hear this. She was a symbol of a kinder relationship with
| nature. I grew up in Kenya and have many fond memories of seeing
| her name on the Chimpanzee sanctuary in Sweetwaters
|
| https://www.olpejetaconservancy.org/what-we-do/conservation/...
| tinyplanets wrote:
| I typically feel pretty disconnected when a major public figure
| passes away, but this one really got to me. Dr. Goodall was one
| of my heroes... I read a couple of her books when I was much
| younger and had dreams of being a primatologist.
|
| It was so gratifying to see her turn into a global leader in
| conservation, compassion, and peace. I had a former supervisor
| who got to meet her personally at a conference on wildlife
| conservation in Africa several years ago (I was quite jealous)...
| I was fortunate to see her speak publicly though.
|
| RIP Jane Goodall!
| junon wrote:
| Damn. Jane Goodall was the reason I am the pro-environmentalist
| person I am today. Learned about her from a young age as an "easy
| day TV class" sort of day, and it fundamentally shaped how I
| viewed the world.
|
| This is awful news, though I can't help but to feel she really
| did it all the right way. Happy she was a part of my timeline.
| themadturk wrote:
| Growing up in the 1960s with access to National Geographic
| Magazines, Jane Goodall was one of the trio of scientists I grew
| up with, the others being Leakey and Jacques Cousteau. Her
| articles were fascinating! RIP
| Communitivity wrote:
| A true loss for the world, the scientific community, and nature.
| SLWW wrote:
| Mumkey Jones will not be happy to hear this
|
| RIP Jane Goodall
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