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Yesterday we participated in another very successful instance of the annual Nature Day fundraising dinner organized by GlobeGuards and hosted by Koninklijke Burgers’ Zoo. During the evening we received the sad news of the passing of Jane Goodall. This was commemorated with a spontaneous one minute of silence, during which the only sound we heard was that of the whistling frogs in Burgers’ Bush.
Jane Goodall started her research on chimpanzees as one of the three ‘Leaky’s Angels’, named after Louis Leakey. He was an archeologist and paleontologist who determined that women would be better suited than men to perform fieldwork on primates, and he commissioned the research performed by Jane Goodall and the other two ‘angels’: Dian Fossey (Gorillas) and Biruté Galdikas (Orangutans).
We like to remember Jane by showing the animals that inspired her and her fellow “angel” scientists and conservationists.
Illustrations of Jane Goodall’s first study animals taken from the book “My life with chimpanzees”; the picture of the young silverback Digit from “Gorillas in the mist”, by Dian Fossey; and an Orangutan taken from “Reflections of Eden”, by Biruté Galdikas.
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