Jane Goodall : living with the monkeys

It is completely unscientific, of course, a number of occasions, and you can't measure it. But there are people who are not able to fill an entire room, even if you weigh 60 kilos. Jane Goodall is such a person. You make it with your sheer presence and your quiet speaking voice, to beat an Overflow filled the Auditorium maximum in a spell. And with a loud impersonated Morgenruf of a chimpanzee – Hu-hu-hu-hu-hu-hu-hu-hu-hu-huwuh the stalls to Vibrate. "Hello" to hot for the animals, she says then with a very quiet voice, and the Smile that was once for you to be at least as important as the results of their research, in order to make it to the first female global media star of the nature of research. The reputation is become as part of your talks to your recognition mark. On 3. April, she is 85 years old.

you wanted to was born with wild animals life

Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall in a British middle class family. The father was an engineer, the mother a writer. "I wanted to live with wild animals, and books about writing," said Goodall "Guardian" – inspired by Tarzan and Dr. Dolittle. But the people told her she was "just a girl" and recommended her to be a missionary wife or a Stewardess. Only your mother laughed at her desire to be a Professional.

About detours Jane Goodall finally made your dream come true: your parents were able to Finance the study, therefore, she attended school secretaries. Finally, she worked as a waitress, to be able to the trip to Kenya. There, she applied to the paleoanthropologists Louis Leakey, who sent in 1960 to Tanzania, to observe for several months in chimpanzees. A time of political upheaval on the continent – therefore she had as a white woman, great benefits, noted in the "New York Times" in retrospect: Africa "was moving in the direction of independence, and white men were a threat and were not liked by Africans. But as a woman you wanted to help me.“

the 26-Year-old camp in the Gombe Stream national Park on the edge of lake Tanganyika hit the floor, she was accompanied by her mother, because women were not allowed to at the time, living alone in the Park. At the beginning of your Expedition seemed to be a hopeless endeavor: Over the months, she caught only brief glimpses of the apes. When she won at last the confidence and trust of the chimpanzees, she made three surprising discoveries: One of the chimps gnawed on the carcass of a small animal. This refuted the prevailing assumption that apes eat no meat. In addition, the same chimpanzee that she had now christened David Greybeard (grey beard) used a blade of Grass to fish termites out of your construction. Thus, he proved that not only humans use tools.

And then freed Greybeard is also a Branch of leaves, to be able to better after the delights of poking around and found this tool. Without any academic education, Jane Goodall had made the primacy of research to the head. Her book "In the Shadow of Man" (1971) was translated into 48 languages.

The characteristic horse-tail is now white

About 40 films were turned over to the researcher. In the "New York Times" reminded you of the first of 1965, the 25 million North Americans watched: "Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees' was so flawed. Orson Welles was the narrator, and I took a lawyer, and Orson Welles had to take him again.“

in 2016, came out of the documentary "Jane", with footage from the ' 60s, had turned to the National Geographic cameraman Hugo van Lawick. He would later become her first husband. The blonde with the characteristic ponytail seemed more like a movie star than a serious behavior researcher. Goodall sees the very pragmatic: "If my legs have helped me to make for the chimps advertising, then it was useful," she told the magazine "Time". In the mid-80s, Goodall gave up her research work in the nature reserve: "I realized that the chimps disappeared, the forests retreated, terrible things in the medical research happened," she told the Guardian. "I knew that my time had come to do something about it."

Even today, with the mid-80, she's still 300 days per year on the road, is committed worldwide to climate protection, nature conservation and sustainable environmental awareness. By the end of 2016, spoke out against the controversial brain research on monkeys at the tübingen Max-Planck-Institute for biological Cybernetics.

Over the years, she has retained her dry sense of Humor: "You grow up from a Baby to an old lady, and then you get older – or not, depending on how many Facelifts you", quipped to the New York Times. Your horse's tail – in addition to the Schimpansenruf your different trademark has become white. Gombe, where it all began, they visited two Times per year. "I miss being in the forest. When I think of the relationship I had with the chimpanzees Flo and David Greybeard – it was magical, and it will never return. No one will ever make again.“

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That she did it at all, and the world – with Schimpansenruf, charm and stamina to our closest Relatives and their threats has drawn attention to this day does, is your great merit. rif/dpa