Some of the names include David Greybeard, Goliath, Gigi and Frodo. Her methods weren’t without criticism, however. In 1993, Dr Goodall wrote: “When, in the early 1960s, I brazenly used such words as childhood , adolescence , motivation , excitement , and mood I was much criticised. “Even worse was my crime of suggesting that chimpanzees had personalities . I was ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman animals and was thus guilty of that worst of ethological sins, anthropomorphism.
Jane Goodall Institute Becoming a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees, Dr Goodall set up the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977. The JGI website says it has covered 3.4million acres of habitat under conservation action plans, has published 482 scientific papers and graduate theses through research at Gombe Stream Research Centre, is caring for 290 chimpanzees and gorillas and has engaged 130 communities through programs led by the JGI.
We tend to think of warfare as a uniquely human trait. After all, although animals do attack and kill each other, this is usually all a part of nature’s circle of life and death, right? This seems to be all fighting over territory, food, or mates, at the whims of their natural instincts, and there is usually little thought given to the fact that animals might wage premeditated war with each other, taking sides and engaging in strategy like us. Yet, humans don’t seem to be alone in our capacity for power struggles, alliances, and flat out war, and this can be seen with the spooky case of a group of chimpanzees in Africa that began a full-fledged civil war, which remains the only witnessed such incident of its kind.