L. Jane Goodall

What animals did Jane Goodall spend most of her time studying and observing?

• Gorillas
• Elephants
• Tigers
• Chimpanzees

What unique method did Jane Goodall use to identify different chimpanzees?

• She gave the chimps names.
• She gave each chimp a number.
• She tagged the chimps bright stickers.
• She installed tracking chips under their skin.

Jane Goodall was the first to observe animals using _____________ in the wild.

• trees as homes
• their hands
• tools
• vocal communication

Why did Jane Goodall leave her chimpanzee troop?

• She got sick and had to return home.
• The troop broke up when the leader died.
• She was kicked out by a new troop leader.
• She became tired of living with the chimpanzees.

Match

• Africa

• a written record of things that happen or are said

• apes

• the second-largest continent in the world, located south of Europe

• chimpanzees

• furry animals, such as chimpanzees or gorillas

• notes

• a person who studies one or more fields of science

• scientist

• midsized great apes that live in Africa and spend their time on the ground and in trees

In 1977, Jane Goodall ​ (a)   the Jane Goodall Institute. The Jane Goodall Institute gives money to ​ (b)   who study chimps in the wild. It also ​ (c)   people living near wild places how to help protect the wildlife in their area.

In 1991, Goodall began the Roots & Shoots program. The Roots & Shoots program began in Tanzania with just ​ (d)   local teens. Today, it ​ (e)   in more than 120 countries and has thousands of members. The main goal of Roots & Shoots is to educate young people about problems that exist around them.

• set up
• scientists
• teaches
• twelve
• operates

More than ​ (a)   years have passed since Jane Goodall first went to Tanzania. Today, she still ​ (b)   with people all over the world. She still talks about her work there. When she can, she ​ (c)   to her Gombe home. She walks into the forest and sits down quietly. She smiles ​ (d)   she watches the chimps.

• fifty
• meets
• returns
• as

Jane was ​ (a)   that the Gombe chimps might all die. She knew she had to tell people what was ​ (b)   in the Gombe Forest. Jane ​ (c)   to travel and talk with large groups of people. She asked them to help her save the chimps and the ​ (d)   . People trusted Jane and listened to her. They ​ (e)   to support her work in Gombe.

• afraid
• happening
• began
• forest
• agreed

After ​ (a)   in Gombe for many years, Jane began to worry. She saw that many of the forests were being ​ (b)   . The chimps were​ (c)   their homes. Some people were even ​ (d)   the chimps for food.

Hunters were also stealing baby chimps to sell them. Some older chimps were sold to labs for ​ (e)   .

• living
• cut down
• losing
• hunting
• experiments

Jane said that each chimp ​ (a)   in its own way, just as humans do. She saw ​ (b)   being happy, sad, angry, and loving-just as humans are. Jane's reports ​ (c)   many people. Her work made many ​ (d)   think that their old ideas about the ​ (e)   might be wrong.

• behaved
• chimps
• surprised
• scientists
• species