Caitlin Southworth - A World in Pictures

This picture is of Jane Goodall’s first contact with a chimpanzee. At this time it was unheard of to touch a wild ape and uncommon for women to work in this field. As Goodall began to work with chimps, she discovered new ways of studying apes that led to her being the only person to be accepted in a chimp society, leading to the first contact with them. Goodall was the lead in the discovery that chimps could also construct and use tools (not just humans) and that chimps were not vegetarian. Because of Jane Goodall, many discoveries about chimps have disproved old thoughts about them. She established the Jane Goodall Institute to promote conservation and development in Africa and to protect chimps and their habitats. Jane Goodall’s innovation, discoveries and leading progress in chimps, like that pictured above, has changed research and conservation for the better and remains the global leader for chimp conservation.