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Jane Goodall has died
- toomuchtodo 1y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall_Institute https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall_Institute
- FireBeyond 1y agoThe sheer volume of a lifetime's effort in studying chimpanzees and primate behavior is huge. Her contributions are priceless. No more will chimpanzees be able to conduct research with that tramp (https://screenrant.com/far-side-controversial-comic-strip-jane-goodall/ https://screenrant.com/far-side-controversial-comic-strip-ja...).
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- bombcar 1y ago> When the strip ran, the Jane Goodall Institute was not amused, promptly drafting a cease and desist letter. Larson maintained he had no ill will towards Doctor Goodall. At the time of the controversy, Goodall had been out of the country, but saw the cartoon for herself when she returned–and loved it. Goodall instructed the institute to drop the issue. In the aftermath, Goodall reached out to Larson, and the two became friends; Larson even licensed the cartoon to the Institute to produce a t-shirt that was then used to raise funds. Goodall even went so far as to write a preface for one of The Far Side’s collected editions. Good(all?) on her, it's nice to see leaders both have a sense of humor and actually lead.
- thr0waway001 1y agoIn heaven with Koko
- eej71 1y agoI suspect Koko's capabilities were completely over sold.
- Rendello 1y agoI was fascinated by Koko's abilities and took them at face value until I saw her famous climate change speech: > I am gorilla. I am flowers, animals. I am nature. Man Koko love. Earth Koko love. But Man stupid. Stupid! Koko sorry. Koko cry. Time hurry! Fix Earth! Help Earth! Hurry! Protect Earth. Nature see you. Thank you. I saw that and felt like I was in crazy land. That's supposedly the kind of talking Koko's been doing this whole time?? Turns out, there was a lot of government funding into ape communication in the 70s, and when researchers figured out that apes can't meaningfully communicate, the funding dried up. Her handler, Penny Patterson, pivoted from research to PR. And how. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/what-does-koko-know-about-climate-change-nothing/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/what-does-koko-know-about-...
- typpilol 1y agoThere's a lot of evidence to suggest most of her research was fraudulent
- libraryatnight 1y agoI remember in grade school so many in the class being inspired by her, then as I grew up every time I encountered her on television or in print she was equally inspiring, empathetic, and informative. I will miss her.
- mapmeld 1y agoI really appreciated her speaking to young people, even riding the NYC subway for the first time to record "Subway Takes" last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkwo6JPV00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkwo6JPV00 She also was speaking on a panel just a week ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df0GWlZm3gk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df0GWlZm3gk
- diggan 1y agoShe was also on Spanish TV just five months ago, I was a bit surprised when she appeared there. Seems most of it is on YouTube as well (hoping it's not geo-restricted): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE7lnl4ah9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE7lnl4ah9s
- lomase 1y agoI will add it is one of the most watched shows on prime time.
- cammikebrown 1y agoMy friend had tickets to see her in LA this Friday.
- aethrum 1y agocrazy how you can just be this alive one year and then dead the next. I get 91 is old, but still
- bobmcnamara 1y agoPeople don't think it's like that but it is, for all of us, eventually.
- quietbritishjim 1y agoBy "this alive" I think they meant physically active and wits about her despite her age. For many of us, unfortunately, it's not like that eventually: a slow and complete deterioration even before death.
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoNYT obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/obituaries/jane-goodall-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE8.TRB2.v64y7FhLrfgF&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/obituaries/jane-goodall-d...
- noufalibrahim 1y agoThis is sad to hear. I saw her at a lecture about 20 years ago. I remember her passion for her subject and how elegant she was.
- maxglute 1y agoWhen I was young, not knowing who Jane Goodall was, I was dragged into lunch by event planner who showed her around Beijing, and wondered why this lady was talking about chimpanzees so much. This was the year the Nokia released Snake, I remember getting enamoured/distracted by her monkey talk and lost a near perfect snake run.
- thom 1y agoSorry for your loss.
- byearthithatius 1y agoThe snake game or her death?
- butlike 1y agoWell, technically apes don't have tails, monkeys do, so the chimpanzee talk would be an ape talk. Learned that from her too
- onraglanroad 1y agoIn the same sense that "there's no such thing as a tree" or "there's no such thing as a fish", there's"no such thing as a monkey".
- IAmBroom 1y ago... unless you include apes.
- AlotOfReading 1y agoMonkeys are just the simiiformes minus the apes. That's just a paraphyly, which is totally fine. If you don't like paraphyletic labels for aesthetic reasons, just include the apes to make it monophyletic. The main reason we don't is that many people have strong, visceral reactions to being called a monkey. You can't do that to fish or trees without including a bunch of things that are obviously not trees and fish.
- throwaway29303 1y agoGodspeed.
- vixen99 1y agoJane Goodall: “My question was: How far along our human path, which has led to hatred and evil and full-scale war, have chimpanzees traveled?”
- seper8 1y agoTo anyone who hasn't seen it (especially those who are fans of Philip Glass) watch this biopic: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7207238 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7207238
- jasoneckert 1y agoYou don’t have to be a biologist or zoologist to appreciate what Jane Goodall brought to the world. Her work transcended science. It touched on compassion, respect for all living beings, and a deep curiosity about the natural world that inspired generations. She didn’t just study chimpanzees; she taught us what it means to observe with empathy, to advocate with conviction, and to act with hope. Her legacy will echo for a very long time.
- rampareddy 1y agoBeautifully put! Her legacy will inspire generations to come.
- adriand 1y agoShe was one of my heroes. I'm terribly saddened by this loss. Imagine what kind of world we would live in if we put these kinds of human beings in charge instead.
- jimbokun 1y agoThe first nations to do so would be invaded and conquered by their more militaristic neighbors.
- cutemonster 1y agoNot necessarily! You can be both a kind person, and build a strong defence, knowing how dangerous our species is. Although maybe rare.
- jimbokun 1y agoBut would Jane Goodall have been that person?
- cutemonster 1y agoI'm guessing just one in a hundred is that person. But maybe not impossible, after all, that'd it'd be someone like her. Did you see what she saw? From the article: > Her most disturbing studies came in the mid-1970s, when she and her team of field workers began to record a series of savage attacks. > The incidents grew into what Goodall called the four-year war, a period of brutality carried out by a band of male chimpanzees from a region known as the Kasakela Valley. The marauders beat and slashed to death all the males in a neighboring colony and subjugated the breeding females, essentially annihilating an entire community.
- alsetmusic 1y agoThat's sad news. She completely changed the way we thought about primate intelligence. Fun fact: she really liked the Far Side cartoon about her. https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Far-Side-Jane-Goodall.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=750&dpr=1.5 https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/...
- Cuuugi 1y agoThe full saga is humourous. from wiki. Gary Larson cartoon incident One of Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons shows two chimpanzees grooming. One finds a blonde human hair on the other and inquires, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"[114] Goodall herself was in Africa at the time. The Jane Goodall Institute thought the cartoon was in bad taste and had its lawyers draft a letter to Larson and his distribution syndicate in which they described the cartoon as an "atrocity". They were stymied by Goodall herself: when she returned and saw the cartoon, she stated that she found the cartoon amusing.[115] Since then, all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon have gone to the Jane Goodall Institute. Goodall wrote a preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy, and the institute's letter was included next to the cartoon in the complete Far Side collection.[116] She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals. In 1988, when Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania,[115] he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.
- AdmiralAsshat 1y ago> In 1988, when Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania,[115] he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo. That last sentence is missing from the Wikipedia page. What is the source on it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side#Jane_Goodall_cartoon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side#Jane_Goodall_cart...
- dmd 1y agoIt's mentioned here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasakela_chimpanzee_community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasakela_chimpanzee_community
- cjfd 1y agoI read one or maybe some (don't remember anymore) of her books about 15 or 20 years ago. Clearly a great person.
- Workaccount2 1y agoWow she was just featured in an interview with the WSJ Journal podcast on Friday. Definitely worth a listen. Such a shame to hear this
- inglor_cz 1y agoThe gap between us and the chimpanzees is, at the same time, "tantalizingly small" and "too big". We have learnt to communicate with them, but they also don't seem to ask questions, at least not the way that humans do. There is obvious intelligence in their eyes and deliberation in their movements, but they seem to be content with an almost static culture. Which was also true for the Neanderthals. What was the last subtle mutation that prodded our species onto the road of intellectual curiosity? We still don't know.
- baxtr 1y agoMaybe asking annoying questions?
- inglor_cz 1y agoMaybe :) To elaborate, there seems to be a difference between physical curiosity and intellectual curiosity. Many mammals, especially when young, are very curious about their environment, peeking, sniffing, burrowing in the ground etc. So are human children. But the ability to ask more abstract questions "why do the stars shine?" does seem to be limited to humans alone, and maybe not even all humans. And it is very uncertain if archaic humans had it as well.
- baxtr 1y agoYes, that’s interesting. I guess it’s mainly related to the fact that we have a different kind of consciousness than other mammals. Maybe that’s tautological? Maybe asking questions about stars defines our consciousness?
- DFHippie 1y agoFor most of human history cultural change was extremely slow, so slow as to be imperceptible. I'm not sure the neanderthals experienced any less dynamic a culture than the modern humans living at the same time. Perhaps expecting change makes change more likely. Also, when things are scarce and life is tenuous you are less likely to experiment. Why waste the resources? Why take the risk? When surplus calories became commonplace is when cultural change took off.
- cldwalker 1y agoThanks to Jane for her contributions. Some great quotes from her: "We have a choice to use the gift of our lives to make the world a better place." and “If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.”
- ndegruchy 1y agoWhat a phenomenal woman, scientist and activist. We could use more people like her. Rest in peace, Jane.
- kulahan 1y agoI think I finally kinda understand what it means when someone says they're personally touched by the loss of a celebrity. I really will miss this lady.
- revjx 1y agoI saw her talk in London earlier this year. She was hilarious, eloquent, and inspiring. I found listening to her quite moving in a way I hadn't anticipated. Remarkable woman. I feel thankful to have had the chance to just stand there and listen to her and look around at all the other rapt faces around me.
- andyjohnson0 1y agoSad to read this. But also a long life well used and, I hope, well lived. As well as helping us to understand some of our companions on this planet, she helped us humans to see ourselves more clearly too.
- aiauthoritydev 1y agoSad day. Some of these folks dedicate their lives to otherwise thankless job/work with such dedication has always made me feel so positive about humanity in general I do understand when religious people do it but Goodall like people are modern day sages.
- bostonpete 1y agoNot sure “thankless” really applies here. She enjoyed a sort of celebrity status for the past 40-50 years and was universally loved.
- pnw 1y agoSad news. She lived an amazing life. I'll never forget seeing her and Nathan Myhrvold greet each other like chimps at a book signing in Seattle.
- nerpderp82 1y agoYou mean greet each other like a chimp and a baboon.
- rmason 1y agoShe last appeared in Detroit at the Fisher theatre just three weeks ago. Knew some folks who attended and they raved about her one person show. Thought I might catch her next time she's there. But I didn't realize how old she was or I might have made it more of a priority. She was pretty high energy for someone in their nineties.
- givehimagun 1y agoI just saw her two weeks ago taping her interview for Overheard with Evan Smith. She was in top notch form and had the audience at the edge of our seats and in tears at moments. I am glad I got to go -- but I am sad the world lost Jane. https://video.austinpbs.org/video/jane-goodall-knw3gq/ https://video.austinpbs.org/video/jane-goodall-knw3gq/
- boxerab 1y ago“We cannot hide away from human population growth, because it underlies so many of the other problems. All these things we talk about wouldn’t be a problem if the world was the size of the population that there was 500 years ago.” -- Goodall at 2002 WEF panel discussion on Amazon rainforest The population 500 years ago was around 500 million. The only way we return to this level is de-industrialization. Paul Ehrlich wrote "The Population Bomb" almost 60 years ago - all of his predictions turned out to be dead wrong.
- nntwozz 1y agoYeah I've seen this before, we could all drive V12s and eat only beef but it's not a very meaningful insight. We're going to stabilize around 10 billion by 2080 according to projections and then decline, hopefully reaching some kind of Star Trek utopia at some point. We came from the caves, we didn't know any better we just multiplied like a cancer. More population also brings more benefits, more geniuses more inventions etc. The trick is doing it without wars and inequality, good luck with that.
- dingnuts 1y ago> hopefully reaching some kind of Star Trek utopia at some point it is so dangerous and naive to think that utopia is possible, even if we all could agree that Star Trek is one, which we shall not, because I certainly do not think its depiction of watered down "luxury space communism with military ranks" is a desirable society.
- jimbokun 1y agoThat’s the real trouble with Utopia, differing ideas on what kind of Utopia we want.
- spockz 1y agoThe world/utopia as described in Star Trek is a world where there is no poverty and free electricity. You describe Starfleet. Obviously, the series do contain elitism. Joining Starfleet is seen as prestigious. And even on Earth there are slums during the time of the federation. So the “Utopia” is not complete. And Starfleet is necessary to protect the utopia from outside influences. It is largely based on the premise of having copious amounts basically free energy, free food (through replicators), safety, and a wide open universe for settlers to join when they do not want to stay in the Federation. Basically, it is based on the absence of contention of resources. Until we have that, either through shrinking or expansions of habitat, we will retain conflict.
- archon810 1y agoOh wow, I was just listening to her interview with the WSJ The Journal podcast a few days ago. Ryan Knutson may have been her last interview. https://pca.st/episode/a724a8f6-b269-4a86-af32-18932f1efbf2 https://pca.st/episode/a724a8f6-b269-4a86-af32-18932f1efbf2
- canucker2016 1y agoListening to the podcast, I realized that Ryan Knutson and Jane Goodall were talking in front of an audience. Was there video? a quick search and, as the french say, "Viola" :) see https://www.wsj.com/video/is-jane-goodall-fighting-a-losing-battle/CFEF01A0-6166-4EEB-95E0-AFD4EC0F39C2 https://www.wsj.com/video/is-jane-goodall-fighting-a-losing-...
- bananaflag 1y agoWhen I was 10, I was bored one day and my grandma brought me from a neighbour "In the Shadow of Man" to read, which I loved. I don't know anyone else who read that book. The weird thing is just today I had recommended that book to a friend.
- westurner 1y agoJane Goodall was a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Jane Goodall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall "Dr. Jane Goodall Teaches Conservation" https://www.masterclass.com/classes/jane-goodall-teaches-conservation https://www.masterclass.com/classes/jane-goodall-teaches-con...
- westurner 1y agoThis one is more about the "apes" (primates), "Primatologist Answers Ape Questions From Twitter" https://youtube.com/watch?v=z4BmXSBXz-c https://youtube.com/watch?v=z4BmXSBXz-c
- moshegramovsky 1y agoI saw her speak once many years ago. We would all be lucky to have a life as long and impactful as hers. May her memory be a blessing / זכרונה לברכה
- rvz 1y agoTruly exceptional and outstanding. RIP.
- evanb 1y agoIf you find Jane Goodall inspirational, you may be delighted to learn about Anne Innis Dagg [0], whose studies of wild giraffe predates Goodall's study of chimps. The documentary "The Woman Who Loves Giraffes" [1] is fantastic and has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. The reason you might not know Dagg's name is essentially that she was denied tenure for being a woman. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Innis_Dagg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Innis_Dagg [1] https://thewomanwholovesgiraffes.com/ https://thewomanwholovesgiraffes.com/
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- saghm 1y agoNo, but it is a way people can get financial security to be able to spend time on more public-facing efforts
- evanb 1y agoThat’s correct, but being forced out of academia is a good way for scientists to disappear from research and publication.
- worik 1y ago> Tenure is not how people gain notoriety Being over looked because of your gender does not gain you notoriety either, otherwise notoriety would mean something completely different! There are so so many But fighting back as Digg did, suing and campaigning - that is how you get notoriety, and help the people following in your footsteps. A pox on their bigoted hierarchies.
- DirkH 1y agoThat was an absolutely lovely read. I did not think I would get so invested. However... I didn't know she died as well so the final sentence on her wiki article caught my off-guard :(
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- zephyreon 1y agoAs a young person I really appreciated how she worked to connect with our generation. She was such an inspiration.
- devinegan 1y agoJane came to my high school and I forged a pass to sneak in to her talk. I am not sure why every class didn't get the opportunity to see her, but I am glad I did. RIP
- adidoit 1y agoSad to hear this. She was a symbol of a kinder relationship with nature. I grew up in Kenya and have many fond memories of seeing her name on the Chimpanzee sanctuary in Sweetwaters https://www.olpejetaconservancy.org/what-we-do/conservation/wildlife-conservation/chimpanzees/ https://www.olpejetaconservancy.org/what-we-do/conservation/...
- tinyplanets 1y agoI typically feel pretty disconnected when a major public figure passes away, but this one really got to me. Dr. Goodall was one of my heroes... I read a couple of her books when I was much younger and had dreams of being a primatologist. It was so gratifying to see her turn into a global leader in conservation, compassion, and peace. I had a former supervisor who got to meet her personally at a conference on wildlife conservation in Africa several years ago (I was quite jealous)... I was fortunate to see her speak publicly though. RIP Jane Goodall!
- junon 1y agoDamn. Jane Goodall was the reason I am the pro-environmentalist person I am today. Learned about her from a young age as an "easy day TV class" sort of day, and it fundamentally shaped how I viewed the world. This is awful news, though I can't help but to feel she really did it all the right way. Happy she was a part of my timeline.
- themadturk 1y agoGrowing up in the 1960s with access to National Geographic Magazines, Jane Goodall was one of the trio of scientists I grew up with, the others being Leakey and Jacques Cousteau. Her articles were fascinating! RIP
- Communitivity 1y agoA true loss for the world, the scientific community, and nature.
- SLWW 1y agoMumkey Jones will not be happy to hear this RIP Jane Goodall
- jrflowers 1y agoMy favorite thing of hers was her documentation of the Gombe Chimpanzee War. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
- jgtor 1y agoBeen lucky enough to visit that park and it's a fantastic place. Take a walking tour and see the chimp groups up close.
- foolserrandboy 1y agoI thought she already died a few years ago I must’ve jumped universes again.
- jibal 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect
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- orsenthil 1y agoMy favorite quote of her has been. Understanding what chimpanzees are like has made me realize that we humans are not so different from other animals as we used to think. What makes us most different is that we are far more clever than even the cleverest chimp, and we have words. We have a spoken language. We can tell stories about what happened a week or a year or a decade ago. We can plan for the future, and we can discuss things - one person's idea can grow and change as other people contribute their ideas. Great ideas become greater, problems are solved. My Life with the Chimpanzees (1996), p. 140
- orsenthil 1y agoThere is a video of the chimp Wounda returning to hug Jane before the chimp's liberation. It brings tears in eyes everytime I watch that. Rest in peace, Jane. You will be missed.
- ETH_start 1y agoI hope that one day aging and the growing inexorability of death as life progresses into old age ceases to be a thing. She being 91 does not negate the tragedy of her death for me.
- FilosofumRex 1y agoJane Goodall and the late E.O. Willson were two great treasures of humanity. They 're leaders of a generation of scientists and public intellectuals who transcendent politics and remained faithful to the motto of great citizens - lead by example.
- rnoorda 1y agoSeveral years ago my niece dressed up as Jane Goodall for Halloween. Through a string of random connections, someone sent Jane a picture of her. She wrote my niece an incredibly nice note complimenting the costume and all its details. For all the good Jane Goodall has done in the world, I am forever grateful that she cared enough to give a young girl a gift she can treasure forever.
- hoag 1y agoRIP Jane Goodall. Not to make a flippant pun but, thank you indeed for all the good you brought to all of us. By discovering humanity in our chimpanzee cousins, you helped us see the humanity in each other.
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- knodi123 1y agoholy racist dogwhistle, batman. chimpanzees are animals, and the only people who think differently are the straw men in the imaginations of people I prefer not to spend time talking to.
- wvh 1y agoRip Jane. We need more gentle souls like her, using soft power to get stuff done instead of bullying the world and everybody in it.
- mdp2021 1y agoOf possible interest: "60 Minutes" re-published a 2018 interview about Tom Mangelsen with Jane Goodall: https://youtu.be/QSxvy0lKJTM https://youtu.be/QSxvy0lKJTM Also, the "Speech for History" last year: https://youtu.be/_qnWuPHJwy4 https://youtu.be/_qnWuPHJwy4
- mdp2021 1y ago> I was born loving animals - all kinds of animals - and she was just so supportive. To give you one example: when I was four-and-a-half years old, she took me for a holiday onto a farm in the country - a proper farm, not these terrible factory farms that we have today. So I met, for the first time, cows and pigs out in the fields, and I was given a job to collect the hens’ eggs. The hens pecked around in the farmyard, but at night they slept in these little wooden hen-houses to keep them safe from foxes. My job was to go and collect the eggs. I’d go around these little hen-houses, and if there was an egg I would put it in my basket. > But I kept asking people, “But where does the egg come out of the hen, because I can’t see a hole that big?” And nobody told me. So one day - I remember this really well - I saw a hen (she was brown) going into one of these hen-houses, and I must have thought, “Ah, she’s going to lay an egg”. So I crawled after her. Big mistake! Squawks of fear - she flew out. But now I’m on the path of discovery: I’m going to jolly well find out how this egg comes out. So I waited in an empty hen-house, and I waited for four hours. For a child of four - some of you are parents - that’s a lot of patience. My mother was about to call the police; nobody knew where I was. And then she sees this excited little girl rushing towards the house, because I had seen how a hen lays an egg and where the egg comes out. I don’t know who was more excited - me or the hen. Anyway, so she sat down to hear this wonderful story of how a hen lays an egg. > I tell that story because isn’t that the making of a little scientist? Curiosity, asking questions, not getting the right answer, deciding to find out for yourself, making a mistake, not giving up, and learning patience - it was all there. (From the "Speech for History".)
- stavarotti 1y agoSuch a wonderful soul. Few people have left an impression on me these many years later. I hope she's done the same for many here.
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