She Is A Member Of ‘Trimate’

Goodall is referred to as a "Trimate" together with Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas, who studied gorillas and orangutans, as one of the three most well-known primatologists in the world. This is the fifth interesting fact about Jane Goodall we want to mention. Anthropologist Louis Leakey had chosen each of the three women to investigate hominids in their natural habitats.


The behavior of hominids, a taxonomic category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and bonobos in addition to humans, was mostly unknown in the middle of the 20th century. At the time, Louis Leakey, a Kenyan-born anthropologist, was the foremost expert on primates. He intended to assemble a study team to solve some of these big apes' puzzles but was unable to find any qualified individuals among his peers. Fortunately for him, he was approached by three brave women who understood that researching these animals required leaving the comfort of the lecture hall and spending decades immersed in some of the most hostile jungles on earth. The Trimates, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, lived among their respective study species and transformed not just how humans perceive their own behavior but also the entire field of primatology as a whole.

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