1. Dilfuza Ibragimova 8A
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall is a women who made significant
contributions to Science. She loved animals since she was
little and observed their behaviors and what and how they
live their life. She was born on April 3, 1934 in London and
married a photographer Van Lawick. Always fascinated by
animal behavior, she snuck out to see how chicken laid
eggs. Amazed she made her family look for her and was so
excited to describe what she has observed to her mother.
After reading the book Dr. Doolittle she had a fascination
with going to the Africa to observe animals in their natural
habitats.
She contacted Louis Leakey, a Kenyan archaeologist
and asked him to discuss animals. Leaky had an idea to
make Goodall his secretary so she can observe the

2. chimpanzees for him. He believed that chimpanzees are or
might be our ancestors and he wanted Goodall to observe
their behavior. She couldn’t go anywhere near the chimps
because they fled when she got near. Soon enough they got
used to her being around and were more comfortable and
even came to her in search of bananas and she was able to
observe the chimps. She used a technique to earn the trust
of the chimps and often mimicked their movements and tried
to acts as a chimp and as well as hang around the trees.
She claims that the Chimpanzees have a unique way of
communicating with each other. She said their language
includes 20 individual sounds. They make and use tools
which was something considered as a human trait only. She
also noticed that there are dominant and recessive males
who keep control and order and are chosen at their
gatherings and feeding times. They use sticks and stones as
a self defense and show passion and comfort by touch and
embrace. She received a PhD and became the 8th person
throughout history who has received her PhDs without first
earning the baccalaureate degree.
She was well known and well respected by many
people and respected most by the scientific circle. She
wrote the book In the Shadow of Man. This book tells about
the things she felt and experience while observing the
chimps. She revealed some funny and other type of
interactions. She felt that the young scientists needed to
know how to treat these animals and wrote a book and then
wrote another book named, The Chimpanzee Family Book
directed mostly towards children. She received many awards
and honors for her hard work, making her one the STEM
Women.