All posts tagged jane goodall

20th Anniversary Show (sort of)

By | June 28, 2023 | Actors & Filmmakers, Cats, Comedians, Educators, General, Primates | No comments

We did things a little differently on today’s show—an understated, somewhat belated, acknowledgment that June marks the 20th anniversary of “Talking Animals.” Read more…

Sarah Baeckler Davis, president & CEO of Project Chimps

By | December 28, 2016 | Advocates, General, Primates, Sanctuaries | No comments

Sarah Baeckler Davis—a primatologist and lawyer who is president and CEO of Project Chimps, a relatively new chimpanzee sanctuary in Northern Georgia—discusses how, at eight years old, reading a book about Jane Goodall absolutely fascinated her, and she decided right then that she wanted to do the same kind of work. Read more…

Dr. Jane Goodall

By | December 9, 2009 | Wildlife | No comments

Dr. Jane Goodall, the primatologist and anthropologist whose study in the 1960s of chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania yielded pioneering findings, has since increasingly been viewed as a highly influential, heroic figure.
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