Jane Goodall, whose name at this point is a metonym for “definitive primate expert,” has weighed in on the Cincinnati Zoo’s decision to fatally shoot Harambe, a 17-year-old gorilla, after a child fell into his enclosure on Saturday. Her decree?
On yesterday's episode of Last Week, Tonight, John Oliver sat down with the world's foremost chimpanzee expert and general badass Dame Jane Goodall, PhD, as part of his Great Minds: People Who Think Good series.
When Austin-based photographer Jaime Moore was deciding how to snap photos of her daughter Emma to remember her 5th birthday, she combed the Internet for visual inspiration — and, naturally, came across a ton of young girls dressed up like Disney princess on their birthdays.
Jane Goodall, the woman all budding biologists probably want to be when they grow up until they realize how thoroughly gross and terrifying it would be to actually live with apes, is releasing a new book next month about plants. Before you get too excited and stake out camping spot in front of your favorite failing…
Jane Goodall on wildlife conservation: "We could all kill ourselves trying to conserve what's left of this planet but if new generations aren't raised to be better stewards then there's very little point." Full interview, here: [New Scientist]
[Tanzania; February 15, 1987. Image via Getty]
Jane Goodall on empathy and its role in science: "It's the empathy you feel with a living, individual being that really helps you understand. Then you can use your scientific training to find out if your intuition is correct." [Time]
"There's a huge resistance in thinking about animals as having emotions, feelings, by anyone involved in invasive research...whether it's putting animals in cages and experimenting on them, or the meat industry. It's much easier to be nasty."-Jane Goodall [LAT]
Loopy, aging stars, Martha Stewart's sex sounds, and inappropriate father/daughter relationships made it on 2008's 10 best talk show moments. (Spoiler alert: there's not a paternity test result in the bunch.)
