Jane Goodall: A Dedicated Pursuit

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🗓️ 16 January 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

As a girl in England, Jane Goodall dreamed of traveling to Africa to study animals in the wild. In 1960, that dream brought her to Tanzania, to observe the wild chimpanzees at Gombe Stream Park. As she describes in this episode, other scientists did not believe that a young woman could survive alone in the bush, but Jane Goodall did more than survive. Her work revolutionized the field of primatology. She was the first to document chimpanzees making and using tools, an activity that had been thought exclusively humans. Over the years she also witnessed cooperative hunting and altruism, but also brutality and even warfare among chimps. Her work, the longest continuous field study of any living creature, has given us deep insights into the evolution of our own species. Since the 1980's, she has devoted herself single-mindedly to educating the public worldwide about the connections between animal welfare, the environment, and human progress. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2017

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0:00.0	When Jane Goodall was a little girl, she was addicted to Dr. Do Little Books.
0:05.2	What's that noise outside?
0:09.2	They all listened.
0:11.2	Then the door flew open and the monkey Chichy ran in, badly out of breath.
0:15.0	Doctor, he cried, I just had a message from a cousin of mine in Africa. There's a terrible sickness
0:21.0	among the monkeys out there. They're all catching it and they're dying in hundreds.
0:25.2	They've heard of you and beg you to come to Africa to stop the sickness.
0:29.2	I would gladly go to Africa, especially in this bitter weather.
0:35.0	By the time Jane Goodall turned 10 or 11, another series of books had stolen her heart,
0:42.0	Tarzan.
0:43.9	Of course I fell passionately in love with this Lord of the Jungle.
0:47.8	And what does he go and do?
0:49.3	He marries that other whimpy chain.
0:52.0	And I was really jealous. And I was sure I would have been a
0:55.2	better mate for Tarzan myself which I would have been. So that was when my dream began. I would grow up. I would live with animals in Africa and I would write books about them. That was a dream.
1:10.0	Well if anyone has ever made a dream come true, it is Jane Goodall.
1:14.9	Her study of chimpanzees in the wild changed everything we know about our hairy tree-swinging
1:21.3	relatives. It also led to profound changes in zoos, in the use of animals for scientific
1:27.8	research, and in our understanding of the relationship between humans and the environment.
1:34.0	Jane Goodall is the subject of this episode of what it takes,
1:38.0	a podcast about passion, vision, and perseverance
1:42.0	from the Academy of Achievement.
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