Following in Goodall's footsteps; ; Students at the University of Minnesota's Jane Goodall Institute have found that, even without the cobras, studying chimps in the African jungle is no easy task.(NEWS)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: May 24, 2000| Author: Dawson, Jim | Copyright information

Those who know Jane Goodall's history - how as a woman in her late 20s she walked, essentially alone, into an African jungle in 1960 to observe chimpanzees - have seen the classic photos: Jane sitting on a mountaintop, surveying the chimps' homeland; Jane sitting in her tent, writing in a journal by the light of a kerosene lamp; Jane looking into the eyes of one of her chimps, with the two primates, human and simian, sharing feelings that span eons and that the rest of us can only ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

Use chimps only when critical to study AIDS, expert urges
Chicago Sun-Times ; Chimp expert Jane Goodall warned scientists here Tuesday that the quest for an AIDS cure should not signal an open season on using chimpanzees for research. Speaking to reporters to kick off a major chimpanzee symposium, which begins today and runs through Friday, Goodall said there are almost
GOODALL PURSUES A LIFELONG MISSION: TEACHING HUMANS ABOUT THEIR RELATIVES
The Boston Globe ; Jane Goodall is trying to teach the world -- specifically, the United States these days -- about the plight of the chimpanzee. Chimps may be losing ground in their native Africa, but their numbers are growing in the United States. In fact, Goodall estimates there are twice as many here than in
Following in Goodall's footsteps; ; Students at the University of Minnesota's Jane Goodall Institute have found that, even without the cobras, studying chimps in the African jungle is no easy task.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) ; ... poured in from researchers in Africa who still get up before dawn every day and track the chimps. The records - field journals, maps, charts and photos of chimps - are in Minnesota almost by chance, thanks to the interventions of Anne Pusey, a former student ...
GOODALL GOING TO THE PUBLIC IN BID TO BETTER CHIMPS' LOT QUIET EFFORTS TO PROD SCIENTISTS DIDN'T WORK, FAMED RESEARCHER SAYS
The Boston Globe ; Jane Goodall, who gained fame through National Geographic articles, TV specials and her books about the wild chimpanzees of Tanzania, has resolved to put her celebrity and scientific clout behind the fight to improve the care of captive chimps, especially those used for biomedical research. Her
Even Goodall's chimps have a Web site now; Computers and other high-tech tools are helping to open research to a new generation.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) ; ... first glance it seems to be good news. Frodo and his community are ... tracing Frodo's movements on flat maps, Pintea can add layers of topography ... restoring and digitizing Goodall's maps and notebooks. Now, using the digital maps and such high-tech technology ...
GOODALL'S LIFE WITH THE CHIMPS
The Boston Globe ; NEW YORK - An afternoon with Jane Goodall is like a walk with Gandhi. The renowned primatologist, who has spent the past 28 years studying the chimpanzees of Gombe in Tanzania, is full of tranquility and purpose. She has stood fast in the face of 100-pound male chimpanzees running and hurling
Rescuing the chimps // Jane Goodall hits the road to save a species in peril
Chicago Sun-Times ; `It all started with a conference in Chicago," says Jane Goodall in a New York hotel room. Her expressive eyes are wide with fatigue - she was unable to sleep the previous night. The distinguished chimpanzee expert is explaining why she has been traveling nonstop for the past 3 1/2 years, far from
Chimps ape us so many ways // Experts to compare notes this weekend
Chicago Sun-Times ; The closer we look at chimpanzees, the more they look like us. Researchers such as Jane Goodall have seen chimps in the wild form lifelong friendships, use tools, wage primitive warfare and practice cannibalism and maybe even medicine. Like humans, chimps can be cruel or compassionate. They love
EXHIBIT AT NORFOLK ZOO HONORS GROUND-BREAKING OBSERVER OF CHIMPS.(DAILY BREAK)
The Virginian Pilot ; Byline: NANCY LEWIS, STAFF WRITER JANE GOODALL'S long fingers stretch toward the stubby outreached fingers of an adolescent chimpanzee, a touch about to bridge eons of travel down divergent evolutionary paths. An impish toddler chimp with black marble eyes and saucer ears is poised to yank the long
Suffer the little chimps. (Jane Goodall) (Beat the Devil) (column)
The Nation ; C I took my mother down Route 1 the other day, from Aptos to Los Angeles by way of the Montery Bay Aquarium and Hearst's place abouve San Simeon. The aquarium, funded by the Packard millions and therefore a benign extrusion of the military-industrial complex, is very nicely done and free of the