Jane Goodall: A Life of Loyalty (Pull Ahead Books)

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by Kristin Sterling

d Lerner Publications Company • Minneapolis

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sterling, Kristin. Jane Goodall : a life of loyalty / by Kristin Sterling. p. cm. — (Pull ahead books—biographies) Includes index. ISBN 978–0–8225–8727–9 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) 1. Goodall, Jane, 1934– —Juvenile literature. 2. Primatologists—Biography—Juvenile literature. 3. Women primatologists—Biography—Juvenile literature. I. Title. QL31.G58S74 2008 590.92—dc22 [B] 2007011701 Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 – JR – 13 12 11 10 09 08

eISBN-13: 978-0-7613-4028-7

Table of Contents A Loyal Scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Curious Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Jane Goes to Africa

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Jane of the Jungle Fame for Jane

A Life of Loyalty

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Jane Goodall Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 More about Jane Goodall Websites

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Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Index

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Jane studies her favorite animals in their forest home.

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A Loyal Scientist Do you like learning about animals? Jane Goodall has been studying chimpanzees for more than 40 years. She has been loyal to the animals she loves.

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Jane grew up in this house.

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Curious Jane Jane Goodall was born in Great Britain in 1934. She loved playing outside and watching animals. She was curious. She asked many questions about nature.

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Jane liked to read stories about animals in Africa.

Leopards live in many areas of Africa.

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Zebras live in grassy, flat parts of Africa.

She told her mother that one day she would study wild animals in Africa. 9

Women work on a farm in Kenya.

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Jane Goes to Africa Jane went to Africa when she was 23 years old. She visited a friend there. Her friend lived in a country called Kenya. Jane decided to stay in Kenya.

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Jane met a scientist named Louis Leakey. They worked together at a museum.

Jane with Louis Leakey

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Louis was interested in chimpanzees. He wanted to learn how they acted in the wild. No one knew much about their life in the jungle. 13

Chimpanzees live among the trees at Gombe.

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Jane of the Jungle Louis and Jane talked about chimpanzees for months. One day, she told him she wanted to study chimps in the wild. Louis sent Jane to the Gombe Stream Reserve. Gombe is in a country called Tanzania. Jane moved there to begin her research.

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Jane could watch chimps from a spot called the Peak.

No one had lived near the chimpanzees before. The chimps stayed far away from Jane at first. 16

Jane followed them at a distance. She got closer to them over time. Finally, they got used to her. Then Jane could study their behavior.

Jane learned that chimps tease one another and play, as people do.

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One day, she saw a chimp using a piece of grass as a tool. It used the grass to catch bugs to eat. Scientists had thought only people used tools.

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Sometimes chimpanzees eat bushpigs.

Jane also learned that chimpanzees hunt for meat. Most scientists thought chimps ate only plants. 19

Jane with a baby chimp named Flint

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Fame for Jane Jane spent many years watching the chimps. She gave them names. She loved them as family. Jane wrote books and made movies about them.

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Jane learned that the chimpanzees were in danger. People cut down the forests where chimpanzees lived. Some people hunted the chimps.

People cut down trees to use the wood.

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Like this monkey, some chimps are kept in cages in labs.

Scientists did experiments on chimpanzees in labs. 23

In 1985, Jane spoke at a National Press Club meeting.

Jane wanted to help the chimps. She began teaching groups of people about the dangers chimpanzees faced. 24

Jane continues to teach people how to protect chimpanzees.

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A Life of Loyalty Jane Goodall has been loyal to her chimpanzee friends. She has spent her life studying and protecting them. Do you want to be like Jane?

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JANE GOODALL TIMELINE 1934

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Jane Goodall is born on April 3.

Jane begins to study chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve.

1957 Jane visits a friend in Africa.

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1960 Jane sees a chimpanzee using a tool.

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1965 Jane graduates from college and becomes Dr. Goodall.

1971 Jane publishes her book In the Shadow of Man.

The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation is started.

1986 Jane begins traveling the world to teach people about protecting chimpanzees and the environment.

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More about Jane Goodall Jane brought her mother, Vanne, with her when she •started researching the chimps at Gombe. • Jane is an ethologist. That is a person who studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats. has been married twice. She has •oneJane son. • Jane has written several books for children.

Websites ChimpanZoo http://www.chimpanzoo.org Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation http://www.janegoodall.org Roots and Shoots http://www.rootsandshoots.org

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Glossary Africa: one of Earth’s seven continents. It is located south of Europe. behavior: the way a living thing acts chimpanzees: African apes with dark hair. They are also called chimps. experiments: tests to find something out loyal: faithful or devoted to someone or to a cause museum: a building where people can see and learn about interesting objects research: careful study tool: something that is used to help do work 31

Index Africa, 8, 9, 11 animals, 5, 7, 8, 9 behavior of chimpanzees, 17–19 birth, 7 books by Jane Goodall, 21, 29, 30 college, 29 dangers to chimpanzees, 22–23 Gombe Stream Reserve, Tanzania, 14, 15, 28 Goodall, Vanne (mother), 30

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Great Britain, 7 Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation, 29, 30 Kenya, 10, 11 Leakey, Louis, 12–13 teaching to protect chimpanzees, 24–25 tool, 18, 28

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Do you know . . . • how Jane Goodall became an expert on chimpanzees? • what surprising things Jane learned about wild chimpanzees in Africa? • how Jane helps to protect chimpanzees?

Read this book to discover the answers!

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