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Why do we need to protect chimpanzees?

Why do we need to protect chimpanzees?

Chimpanzees, our close relatives, play a vital role in maintaing the diversity of Central Africa’s forests. The large seeds they eat and disperse are too big for most other animals. Without them, and their fellow great apes and elephants, these forests would be irreversibly changed.

What did Jane Goodall do with chimpanzees?

Jane Goodall made the observation of a group of chimps eating a bushpig. Prior to this discovery, chimpanzees had been assumed to be vegetarian. During her research, Jane also observed the hunting process – a group of chimpanzees attacked, killed, and ate a red colobus monkey that had climbed high into a tree.

How did Jane Goodall help animals?

British ethologist Jane Goodall is one of the world’s best-recognized primatologists and advocates for animals. In 1977 she founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation, which advocates improved welfare for and better knowledge of chimpanzees, primates, and animals in general.

How are chimpanzees being protected?

protect chimpanzees through antipoaching and effective law enforcement. help governments establish and manage national parks. monitor chimpanzee populations. encourage sustainable use of forest resources in park buffer zones.

How did Jane Goodall change the world?

Since then, her research has revolutionized the study of great apes, their habitats, and the relationship between humans and animals. Her vast impact on primatology continues today through her efforts to save primate populations in the wake of deforestation, poaching, and looming extinction. Oct 17 2019

How did Jane Goodall save the chimps?

By the 1980s Jane realised she had to protect the chimps from the growing threat of extinction. They had been ravaged by polio , a human disease initially passed to the apes in the south of the country. Jane saved most of her chimp community by injecting them with a human vaccine.

What did Jane Goodall do for a living?

Jane Goodall is known for her years of living among chimpanzees in Tanzania to create one of the most trailblazing studies of primates in modern times.

What tools did Jane Goodall use to study chimps?

In another group of chimps, different from the culture that Jane Goodall studied, there was a discovery of a hammer and anvil tool (top of page) being used to crack open hard nut shells. (An anvil is a hard surface that is used to place something on while it is hit with a hammer to crack it.) This is a perfect example…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUBpsYZEv7s