The Ethologist Jane Goodall dies, the biggest chimpanzee expert

The British ethologist Jane Goodallconsidered the largest world expert in Chimpanzees, has died at 91 in California (United States) for “natural causes,” confirmed the Jane Goodall Institute on Wednesday in a statement on social networks.

«The Jane Goodall Institute has learned this morning on October 1 that Dr. Jane Goodall (…) has died due to natural causes«, Wrote the homologous center, which indicated that the ethologist was in California as part of his conference tour in the United States.

According to the Institute, «the discoveries of Dr. Goodall as Etologist They have revolutionized science and was a tireless defender for the protection and restoration of our natural world ».

Goodall, born on April 3, 1934 in London, It was a pioneer in the study of the chimpanzees in the wildof which he discovered guidelines for unknown behaviors and skills in his research, to which he dedicated more than 60 years of his life and that involve a transcendental scientific contribution to understand the roots of human behavior and culture.

He lived surrounded by animals since his childhood in southern England, but It wasn't until 23 years when he traveled to Africa For the first time with the risky mission of investigating the chimpanzees in the jungle for a research project that in theory was going to last six months, but ended up accompanying it all his life.

Goodall was a doctorate in ethology from the University of Cambridge in 1965 and returned to Gombe Park (Tanzania), where he discovered that chimpanzees eat meat, manufacture toolsThey use plants as medicines, adopt young whose mothers have died or can transmit knowledge and experience feelings such as love, jealousy or anger.

Wrote about twenty books, including 'on the path of man' (1971), where He recounts these findings and considered one of the most important scientific works of the twentieth centuryas well as innumerable scientific articles, in addition to having starred about twenty audiovisual productions.

Doctor 'Honoris Causa' by 45 universitiesamong them the Complutense of Madrid, during her career she received a hundred awards, such as the Prince of Asturias of Scientific Research in 2003 or the title of Lady of the British Empire that same year and the gold medal of the UNESCO (2006), among others.

Goodall married in 1964 with the Dutch Hugo Van Lawick, National Geographic photographer, of which He divorced ten years later and with whom he had a sonHugo Eric Louis (1967). In 1975 he married in second nuptials with British Derek Brycesson, who died in 1980.