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Jane Goodall: Chimps' Best Friend

Jane Goodall has dedicated her life's work to studying chimpanzees in their natural habitats in order to understand their behavior and social structures. Her research presents many challenges as she spends long days observing the chimps through all weather conditions with little comfort or breaks. Goodall has learned that chimpanzees live in family groups and have social hierarchies, communicate in various ways including warnings of threats, use tools, and eat some meat for protein. Her goal is to increase understanding of human nature through studying our close primate relatives, and to protect chimpanzees from threats of endangerment by raising awareness of their intelligence and lives.

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Jane Goodall: Chimps' Best Friend

Jane Goodall has dedicated her life's work to studying chimpanzees in their natural habitats in order to understand their behavior and social structures. Her research presents many challenges as she spends long days observing the chimps through all weather conditions with little comfort or breaks. Goodall has learned that chimpanzees live in family groups and have social hierarchies, communicate in various ways including warnings of threats, use tools, and eat some meat for protein. Her goal is to increase understanding of human nature through studying our close primate relatives, and to protect chimpanzees from threats of endangerment by raising awareness of their intelligence and lives.

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Question 3

You are a journalist writing a magazine article about Jane Goodall’s work.
In your magazine article you should:
• explain what Jane’s work involves and the challenges it presents
• explain what Jane has learned about chimpanzees and their lives
• suggest why Jane’s work is important and what she hopes to achieve.

Write the words of the magazine article.

Base your magazine article on what you have read in Text C, but be careful to use your own words.
Address each of the three bullets points.

Write about 250 to 350 words.

Jane Goodall: Chimps’ best friend


Jane Goodall, a wildlife expert who studies the behaviour of great apes in their natural
habitats, has truly shown the world her natural love of the great outdoors and animals. How
does she spend her day? What does she do?

Waking up early in the morning before the alarm goes off, she typically has a quick
breakfast before heading to work. With the rest of the group, she would wait patiently for the
chimpanzees to leave without frightening or upsetting them while capturing the chimpanzees
with her one-and-only camera and taking notes along her journey. It would take a lot of
stamina and energy for Jane to search among the trees and carefully peer through them
throughout the day. Not to mention that they barely have time for a proper meal. For instance,
there is once where Jane only had raisins for lunch. Sometimes, Jane continues to work hard
outside despite getting soaked in the rainy weather as there no shelter given. It would usually
take an hour before the rain eases off and the chimps to move away from the soggy trees.

After studying chimpanzees’ lives for years and their behaviour, she discovered about
their social structure, which includes harmonious family groups. Moreover, she also learned
about their travel habits, in which one chimp leader ensures that the rest are following in
order to lead them. Based on Jane, she also found out that primates are so intelligent that they
can create their own tools. They even thrilled her when they trimmed the grass to fish for
termites! Apparently, chimpanzees are also able to communicate with each other. There was
once a time when Jane overheard a chimpanzee warning his fellows with a loud hoot that
their enemy was coming to hunt them down. Isn’t that amazing? Also, it appears that
primates are vegetarians? What a discovery- But why do they eat meat? They seem to eat
meat to obtain the protein they need so that they will gain more energy for their daily hunting.

In a nutshell, Jane intents to have a better understanding of our human nature, since
primates are quite similar to humans as they play and groom. She is eager to discover more
about chimps by observing their daily habits and social structures. She also hopes to achieve
her goals in the near future by launching a campaign to raise awareness so people would learn
more about them, in order to protect the endangered chimps that are under threat from
humans.

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