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Born in London On April 3

Jane Goodall developed an early interest in animals as a child in London. She was fascinated by stories set in the jungle, which led her to plan a life of studying animals in Africa. At age 23, she fulfilled this dream and worked in Kenya until meeting anthropologist Louis Leakey, who selected her for a chimpanzee study in Gombe due to her lack of preconceptions from formal training. Goodall has now been researching chimps at Gombe for over 40 years, far exceeding the expectations of both her and Leakey.

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Born in London On April 3

Jane Goodall developed an early interest in animals as a child in London. She was fascinated by stories set in the jungle, which led her to plan a life of studying animals in Africa. At age 23, she fulfilled this dream and worked in Kenya until meeting anthropologist Louis Leakey, who selected her for a chimpanzee study in Gombe due to her lack of preconceptions from formal training. Goodall has now been researching chimps at Gombe for over 40 years, far exceeding the expectations of both her and Leakey.

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Born in London on April 3, 1934, world-renowned primatologist Jane
Goodall got an early start on animal study, spending much of her
childhood observing animals that lived right in the backyard of her
house. Later, Kipling's Junglebook and the Tarzan stories fascinated her
as well. And those, coupled with her love for animals, led her to plan a
life in the African jungle. When she finally ventured into Africa, at the
age of 23, Goodall was fulfilling her childhood dream. Goodall worked as
a secretary for a year in Kenya until having learned that anthropologist
Louis Leakey was doing research in Zaire, she made a trip to meet him.
Leakey had been searching for someone to carry out a field study on
chimpanzees in the Gombe National Reserve in Tanzania and decided
Goodall would be ideal for the project because her lack of formal
training would prevent prior knowledge from interfering with her
observations and conclusions. Leakey told her the research might take
ten years. She thought it might take just three. They were both
mistaken. Goodall has been researching chimps at Gombe for over forty
years now.   

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on True or False.

1.

Jane Goodall has been studying animals since she was a child.  

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2.

Goodall's lifelong dream was influenced by her interest in stories set in the

jungle.

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3.

Goodall fulfilled her childhood dream at the age of 33.

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4.

When Goodall first went to Africa, she worked as a primatologist in Kenya.

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5.

Goodall was rejected by Louis Leakey because of her lack of formal training.

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False

6.

Goodall's field of study in Gombe has turned out to be her career.

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False

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