Jane Goodall, Famed Anthropologist & Activist, Dead at 91 | E! News

Jane Goodall, Famed Anthropologist & Activist, Dead at 91 | E! News

That’s the kind of world that we should fight to save what’s left but to restore so much of what’s gone. Dr. Jane Goodall, the famed anthropologist, ethologist, primatologist, and conservation activist, has died. Her conservation organization confirms in a statement shared to Facebook. The message reads, “The Jane Goodall Institute has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, UN Messenger of Peace, and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States. The statement continues, “Dr. Goodall’s discovery as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world.” Born in London in 1934, Goodall rose to fame in the 1960s with her pioneering research on wild chimpanzees in Tanzania, which helped shed light on the overall behavior of primates and their relationships. After her early years studying primates in the late 50s and early 60s, she became just the eighth person to attend Cambridge to obtain her PhD without an undergraduate degree. Though when she made the cover of National Geographic in 1965, she faced backlash and sexism as she noted on her recent appearance on the Caller Daddy podcast with Alex Cooper. Some of the jealous male scientists will say, “Well, you know, she’s just got this notoriety and she’s getting money from Geographic and they want her on the cover.” And they wouldn’t put her on the cover if she didn’t have nice legs. So, if somebody said that today, they’d be sued, right? Back then, all I wanted was to get back to the chimps. So, if my legs were getting me the money, thank you legs. If you look at those covers, they were jolly nice legs. For me, it was a long time ago. It was a different era. It wouldn’t work today. In 2017, a documentary titled Jane told the story of Dr. Goodall’s early explorations and research in Tanzania. Amid the film’s release, Jane spoke about what she wanted viewers to take away from her extraordinary life and work. They definitely have a feeling about maternal behavior and how we share the same kind of feelings for our young ones as as the chimpanzees do. But they’ve they’ve also had a feeling of this is how it was. Nature was so so free. It was so much less constrained and constricted by boundaries. created by us. And that’s the kind of world that we should fight to save what’s left, but to restore so much of what’s gone. Jane Goodall was 91 years old. [Music]

Famed anthropologist Jane Goodall died Oct. 1, her advocacy organization confirmed in a statement, sharing she had been in in the middle of her U.S. speaking tour at the time of her death. Full Story: https://www.eonline.com/news/1423273/jane-goodall-dead-at-91

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