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California, Oct 2: The world bid farewell to Dr Jane Goodall, the iconic British conservationist and primatologist whose groundbreaking work on chimpanzees transformed our understanding of humans and the natural world. Goodall passed away at the age of 91 of natural causes in California while on a speaking tour, the Jane Goodall Institute announced on Wednesday.

Born in London in 1934, Goodall’s fascination with animals led her to Tanzania in 1960, where she began her pioneering research on free-living chimpanzees. Her landmark observation of a chimpanzee named David Greybeard using tools to fish termites challenged the belief that only humans were capable of tool-making, forever changing the field of ethology.

In 1977, she founded the Jane Goodall

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