On October 1, 2025, beloved scientist, Jane Goodall, died of natural causes. Jane Goodall had an amazing career and left behind a great legacy. She was very famous for her discoveries about primates (any mammal in the order Primates, which includes humans, apes, and monkeys), and their behavior. Some of these include that primates use and make tools! Another of her discoveries was that chimps are omnivores (meat and plant eaters), while people used to believe that they were herbivores (just plant eaters). 

Jane Goodall was born on April 3rd, 1934, and her full name is Valarie Jane Morris-Goodall. Jane had a love for animals when she was a girl, and she had a dog named Rusty, a tortoise, and a pony. Later in life, Jane Goodall met the famous paleoanthropologist (a scientist who studies human evolution by analyzing the fossil and archaeological records of ancient humans and their hominin ancestors), Dr. Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey. L. S. B. Leakey offered Jane a job at a natural history museum and she worked there for a while before he sent her to Gambe Stream Game Reserve (now called Gambe Stream National Park) so she could observe chimpanzees. And thus, started her research to discover more about chimpanzees that no other could discover.

I admire Jane Goodall because she paved the way for a new way of studying wildlife, and she named the primates she studied instead of numbering them like the other scientists did. It seems nicer to the monkeys, chimpanzees, and apes if you name them so they seem more natural and real. I hope in the future we get more scientists like her.