Jane Goodall
By Madeline
This is me taking photos of a chimp.
This is me with a big chimp.
This is me sharing my work with other people.
Early LIfe / Influences
One time my best friend was in Kenya, Africa and invited me to her farm there. When I got there, my friend was waiting for me. On the way back to her farm, I saw a giraffe. I also loved looking at bugs and butterflies. My mother used to tell everybody that I was born with a paper and pencil in my hand. I also loved reading books. I really loved: The Jungle Book, The Tarzan books and Doctor Doolittle. I LOVED adventuring !!!!!!!!! I had a stuffed animal named "Jubilee" and my neighbor's dog named Rusty to go with me on adventures.
This is a picture of "Flo", a chimp that I was studying.
This is a photo of me letting a infant touch her.
This is a picture of a chimp tapping my nose.
Achievements/Accomplishments
I learned that humans were not the only spieces that make and use tools. I learned it from one of the chimps that I studied. The chimp would take a stick and stick it into a centipede hole. When the chimp took it out, there were thousands of centipedes on it. The chimp had figured out how to get his food.I quickly told my boss. I also had another accomplishment: I wanted to have real contact with a chimp and I did when the chimp and I made eye contact. One big accomplishment I had was having a son,Hugo. When I came back from my college at Cambridge, I heard that a chimp had taken food from the camp. I soon found out that it was David Graybeard (one of the chimps I studied). David became less and less afraid of me and I hoped that other chimps would too. Eventually a baby chimp came close to me and I even touched her! This is a another sign that I had contact with a chimp. I usually studied the chimps in high places like trees, cliffs and high rocks.
This is a map of Tanzania.
Contributions to society
I made a society where you could study animals. I taught students how to take care of chimps. After the students studied and graduated they helped me with my dream of taking care of the chimps. I established "The Jane Goodall Institute for Wild Life Research, Education, and Conservation". I also made the "Chimpanzoo". They give food and water to the chimps. They also help mother chimps give birth to their babies.
Challenges/Turning Points
I attended the secretarial school in London and worked as a secretary and an assistant to make money. I needed the money to go back to Africa and keep on studying chimps. It challenged me because I wanted to live my dream but I had to wait. When I finally got to study the chimps, with a little believing in myself and a lot of patience, I got the chimps' attention. The chimps let me study closer and closer. I wrote in my journal that night, "That day in fact marked the turning point in my study".
This is me sharing my work in Gombe.
This is me on a boat.
This is me feeding a chimp.
Interests/Hobbies/Personality Traits
I loved studying, watching and taking notes of the chimps. I was known as the "chimpanzee protector". I was also a great mother. I had one son named Grubison. But when he grew up, others they called him "Hugo". But family and close friends called him "Grub".
This is me and my neighbor's dog, "Rusty".
This is a picture of me and a chimp.
This is me holding hands with a chimp.
Other Interesting facts/Stories
When I was a child, I wanted to know how hens laid eggs. When my mother sent me to get the hens' eggs, I went inside the coup and hid in the hay. When the hen sat in her nest, I waited. A few minutes later the hen laid her egg but my was mom worried about me because she had no idea were I was. Then I finally got out of the chicken coup happily. I finally knew how hens laid their eggs. My mom was relieved and did not even scold me because she was so happy.
This is a bar graph showing the similarities between the chimps and us.
Work Cited
Meachum, Virginia. Jane Goodall Protector of Chimpanzees. New Jersey, Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Krohn, Katherine. Jane Goodall Animal Scientist. Minnesota, Capstone Press.
Neugebauer Michael. The Jane Goodall Chimpanzee Family Book. Massachusetts, Picture Book Studio.