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Jane Goodall’s gift to us: Seeing animals as both kin and mystery
October 04, 2025 5:41 pm
When she showed us that chimpanzees are not only creatures that echo our behaviours, but also beings whose violence, estrangement, and silence mark them as irreducibly other, she showed that similarity becomes the lens through which difference is magnified
Jane Goodall: Pioneering scientist, difficult woman
October 04, 2025 6:58 am
Her approach — empathetic, patient, immersive — contrasted with that of her mostly male contemporaries. Soft-spoken but deeply committed, Goodall’s work stands as proof that what is often termed ‘difficult’ in a woman is simply the courage to insist on another way
Pioneering discoveries, unusual methods: What made Jane Goodall the world's most famous primatologist
October 03, 2025 2:24 pm
Goodall closely observed and researched behavioural patterns that drastically improved human beings’ understanding of chimpanzees, our closest living relatives in the evolutionary tree.
A mysterious, lethal chimp disease is linked to a human illness
February 05, 2021 2:42 pm
Deaths at a Sierra Leone sanctuary that stumped people for 15 years have now been linked to a bacterium that seems to cause similar ailments in humans.
Chimpanzees prefer African and Indian beats over Western music
June 27, 2014 12:55 pm
Emory University research findings show that Chimpanzees display a preference for particular rhythmic patterns.
Brain size matters when it comes to animal self-control
April 23, 2014 4:34 pm
The findings challenge prevailing assumptions that 'relative' brain size is a more accurate predictor of intelligence than 'absolute' brain size.
First full set of great ape genome sequenced
July 07, 2013 3:26 pm
Chimpanzees have a much more complex genetic history than humans,researchers said.
Chimps 'solve puzzles just for fun' like humans
February 24, 2013 9:35 pm
Chimps love to solve tricky puzzles and get a similar sense of satisfaction as humans who complete crosswords,a new study has found.
Chimpanzees table manners
May 20, 2012 2:17 am
Chimpanzees display cultural preference with their tool choice,a study says
Chimps's days as lab subjects may soon be over
November 20, 2011 2:22 am
A major push by advocacy groups could bring a decision within a year to stop lab experiments assailed as cruel and unnecessary
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