• Jane Goodall died on October 1 at the age of 91. • While on a speaking tour throughout the United Staes, Goodall died of natural causes in California. • Goodall is remembered for her animal welfare advocacy, her work as a conservationist, and for reshaping the way scientists understood primates.

Celebrated conservationist Jane Goodall has died. She was 91 when she passed away of natural causes, according to an announcement released on Wednesday by the Jane Goodall Institute. Goodall was in California on a speaking tour throughout the United States when she passed.

Jane Goodall was best known for her pioneering research on chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, beginning in 1960. She reshaped primatology by showing that chimpanzees use tools, form complex social bonds

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