chimpanzee

Leakey wanted Goodall to live among a group of chimpanzees and study them, in the same way that anthropologists study human groups by observing their daily lives, rituals and behavior.

In the many years that Jane Goodall observed and studied chimpanzees, she revolutionised our understanding of our closest primate cousins.

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.

Conservationist Dame Jane Goodall, a world-leading expert on chimpanzees, has died aged 91.

Two baby chimpanzees have been born at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first in 11 years.