1. Jane Goodall

   Activist

   Valerie Jane Morris Goodall, DBE , Ph.D. is a naturalist, activist and British primatologist who has dedicated his life to studying the behavior of chimpanzees in Africa and styles educate and promote more sustainable life on the planet .

   Born into a modest family and poor , from small always dreamed of traveling to Africa to live among animals and write books about them . He traveled to Kenya in 1958 and met paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, who was given the task of traveling to Gombe (Tanzania ) to study wild chimpanzees . In 1960 , after observing the behavior of chimpanzees for months , one day one of them spotted entering a post (which had previously cut and bare ) in a termite mound to get to eat . Until that time as the only species capable of using tools was humana.2 With this discovery, the instrumental observations on chimpanzee behavior , their hunting , their intelligence, their emotions and their individual personality revolutionized biology and our perception of other primates.
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