Home > 2025 > Jane Goodall, the gentle disrupter whose research on chimpanzees redefined (...)October 1, 2025Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work of pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall [1]. PlayJane Goodall documented that chimpanzees not only used tools but make them – an insight that altered thinking about animals and humans. I also am a primatologist [9], and Goodall’s groundbreaking observations of chimpanzees at Gombe were part of my preliminary studies. Renowned anthropologist Louis Leakey [11] chose Goodall to do this work precisely because she was not formally trained. And like me she followed her dream until it became a reality.”PlayIn a 2023 interview, Jane Goodall answers TV host Jimmy Kimmel’s questions about chimpanzee behavior.