Jane Goodall

By cuppup

  • Jane hides in a hen house to see how hens lay eggs.

    Jane hides for hours in henhouse to see how a hen lays an egg, unaware her family is frantically searching for her.
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    Jane Goodall

  • Chrismas

    Jane receives The Story of Dr. Dolittle as a gift. It entrances Jane, as does Tarzan of the Apes. She decides that someday she will travel to Africa to observe and write about animals.

  • Jane starts a nature club

    Jane starts a nature club, The Alligator Society, which includes her younger sister Judy and their friends Sally and Sue.

  • Jane finishes school and passes her Higher Examinations

    Jane finishes school and passes her Higher Examinations. Her family cannot afford to send her to university, so Jane will learn secretarial skills.

  • Jane begins Queen’s Secretarial College in South Kensington.

    Jane begins Queen’s Secretarial College in South Kensington.

  • Jane assists her aunt Olly

    ■Jane assists her aunt Olly with clerical work at Olly’s clinic for children and adults in need of physical therapy.
    ■August, Jane begins clerical work at Oxford University. She’s allowed to bring her pet hamster, Hamlette, to work.

  • Jane takes a job at Schofield Productions in London

    Jane takes a job at Schofield Productions in London, choosing music for documentaries. She enjoys the city’s tremendous cultural offerings, going to concerts, taking philosophy classes and generally exploring.

  • Jane meets anthropologist and paleontologist Louis S.B. Leakey

    Jane meets anthropologist and paleontologist Louis S.B. Leakey

  • Jane travels with Louis

    Jane travels with Louis and Mary Leakey to Olduvai Gorge to dig for fossils. Around this time, Louis asks Jane if she is interested in studying a group of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania. Jane eagerly accepts.

  • Jane and her mother Vanne arrive on the shores of Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in western Tanzania.

    Jane and her mother Vanne arrive on the shores of Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in western Tanzania.

  • Jane observes meat-eating for the first time

    Jane observes meat-eating for the first time. Later she sees the chimpanzees hunt for meat. These observations disproved the widely held belief that chimpanzees were primarily vegetarians.

  • Jane observes David Greybeard and Goliath making tools to extract termites from their mounds

    Jane observes David Greybeard and Goliath making tools to extract termites from their mounds, a discovery that would force science to reconsider its definition of homo sapiens: “Man the Toolmaker”

  • Jane marries wildlife filmmaker and photographer Hugo van Lawick at the Chelsea Old Church

    Jane marries wildlife filmmaker and photographer Hugo van Lawick at the Chelsea Old Church

  • National Geographic grants funds for aluminum buildings

    National Geographic grants funds for aluminum buildings, the first permanent structures to exist at Gombe and the beginnings of the research center.

  • Jane earns her Ph.D. in Ethology from Cambridge University

    Jane earns her Ph.D. in Ethology from Cambridge University