Dr. Jane Goodall, the pioneering primatologist who forever changed the way we look at chimpanzees, has died at age 91. On October 1, 2025, the Jane Goodall Institute announced that its namesake and founder, Dr. Jane Goodall, died of natural causes while on a speaking tour in California.
“Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world,” the organization’s statement on social media reads.
In the 1960s, Goodall’s groundbreaking research into how chimpanzees behaved in the wild revolutionized the study of primates. In her later career, she became a passionate environmentalist dedicated to protecting the planet and all of its creatures. As one of Glamour‘s Women of the Year in 2008, Goodall said, “You can’t solve all the problems of the world, but each day you can do something. A certain peace comes from doing what you feel you should be doing.”
Women were not generally accepted within scientific fields when Goodall began her career in the 1950s. But perhaps being a woman is what allowed Goodall to revolutionize the study of chimpanzees in the first place.
This story will be updated.
View the original article here
