Primatology

world's foremost expert on chimpanzees; discovered chimps make & use tools; 1960 discovered chimps are omnivorous; did chimp mother-infant study; discovered animals display complex social behavior such as altruism, affection & ritualized behavior; founder of the Jane Goodall Institute in California (1977) and the Roots & Shoots (1991) its youth program; discovered that chimpanzees will systematically hunt and eat smaller primates such as colobus monkeys; 1992 founded the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Centre in the Republic of Congo to care for chimpanzees orphaned due to bush-meat trade; 1994 founded the Lake Tanganyika Catchment Reforestation and Education (TACARE or "Take Care") pilot project to protect chimpanzees' habitat from deforestation by reforesting hills around Gombe while simultaneously educating neighboring communities on sustainability and agriculture training; TACARE project also supports young girls by offering them access to reproductive health education and through scholarships to finance their college tuition; in the mid-1990s, the Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies was created at the University of Minnesota to house and organize the data she had collected over the years-in 2011 plans were made to transfer the data to Duke University; 2018 and 2020 she partnered with friend and CEO Michael Cammarata on two natural product lines from Schmidt's Naturals and Neptune Wellness Solutions with five percent of every sale benefited the Jane Goodall Institute; collaborated with NASA to use satellite imagery from the Landsat series to remedy the effects of deforestation on chimpanzees and local communities in Western Africa by offering the villagers information on how to reduce activity and preserve their environment; with Professor Mark Bekoff, founded the organization Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in 2000; noted that chimpanzees throw stones as weapons, use touch and embraces to comfort one another and develop long-term familial bonds; observed that chimpanzees have a primitive "language" system containing more than 20 individual sounds; is also an accomplished photographer, and has published several books of her photographs;

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Ethnology

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