Origin Stories: The Four Year War
The Leakey Foundation has released the first episode of the new season of its award-winning Origin Stories podcast.
Jane Goodall on Instinct
In this charming animated interview from the PBS Series Blank on Blank, Jane Goodall discusses her early dreams of studying animals in the wild, and how meeting Louis Leakey in Kenya made it possible for her to start her pioneering chimpanzee research.
Happy Birthday, Jane
Louis Leakey with Jane Goodall in 1970. Photo from The Leakey F
Jane Goodall, arguably the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees and one-third of the famous “Trimates” (A.K.A. “Leakey’s Angels”), will celebrate her 80th birthday on April 3rd.
With the help of Louis Leakey, Goodall began her study of chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania in 1960. By 1967,