LOS ANGELES — Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. A tireless advocate of preserving chimpanzees’ natural habitat, Goodall died Wednesday morning, Oct. 1, in California of natural causes, the Jane Goodall Institute announced on its Instagram page. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science,” the Jane Goodall Institute said in a statement. Ethologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, known for groundbreaking studies of wild chimpanzees, is photographed at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas on Oct. 2, 2024. “It was hard for me to believe what I had seen,” Goodall later wrote.