Dr Jane Goodall: the life work of the local conservationist
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, ...