Jane Goodall is DEAD to me!

Dollface thread.

Loved her. She’ll be missed.

I’m going to give her a big hug when she gets here. Well, not too big a hug.

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She was no Dian Fossey.

RIP

Oh god. Two of my favorites are gone—Redford and now Jane—both who added value to the world. We need more people like them.

RIP😢

I love that she and her husband nicknamed their male child "Grub."

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May her memory be a blessing. She had a life well-lived, advocating for primates, humanity, and the planet. Bless her.

Loved her books about her chimp studies. She was fearless! A couple of those chimps beat the shit out of her but she persevered.

The world is a poorer place today.

When I was a kid, she was THE National Geographic cover girl. They featured her in numerous issues int he 60s, I remember.

Diamonds!

Another icon gone. :(

Thanks for that Far Side cartoon, R10. You know you are part of the world culture when you get a mention like that!

We'll always have Nymphia Wind's Snatch Game version.

You beat me to it r10.

She loved making those gorilla noises.

Jane Deadall is GOOD to me!

She made it to 91! What an incredible life and an inspiring human being.

Flags should be flying at half mast for her, not Charlie Kirk

Why? He was a lower primate.

She was so elegant, but so tough.

Oh, boo hoo hoo

Gary Larson got an angry call regarding that carton at R10 when it was published. Somebody from her Foundation called him out. But the truth was the complainer was speaking out of turn. Goodall loved it and even included it in a later book of hers.

The family of primates mourns our loss. Jane Goodall brought awareness of our familial ties which the others knew, but the humans were slow to grasp. Thanks to Ms. Goodall, by daring to respect our cousins' intelligence we, in turn, learned so much more about ourselves.

Yes, she loved and studied her fellow primates, but it was the canine and their mastery of unconditional love who truly captured and owned her heart. There's no arguing with that.

Rest In Peace, Jane Goodall.

A shining light amid the darkness.

Godspeed.

As a lower primate, I salute her!

Please don't masturbate in public r29.

This is awful, what happened?

Heroin overdose, R31

So young!

She was a fascinating person. She loved studying animals, science, African politics, classical music, literature, and enjoyed a strong whiskey at the end of the day.

A true renaissance woman.

[quote] and enjoyed a strong whiskey at the end of the day

Just the one?

[Quote] This is awful, what happened?

She died fighting an oil-rig fire on the North Sea, Rose.

I know I'll get flamed but with all due respect the woman was 91 years old. Let's not pretend she was in the middle of some new study on primates and about to release some new revelations. She had a good life. Also at some point will we find a way to blame her death on Trump and the GOP as you know that's coming too. Here in NYC if Mamdani was mayor, she'd be alive today and about to go on some new expedition, funded by the NYC left. You know that's coming too. Muriel will block me. See you all in 48 hours.

Huh?

I hope that was parody.

"She loved making those gorilla noises." Nope. Diane Fossey studied gorillas. Jane was all about the chimps.

She was very attractive when young: blonde and lithe and willowy.

Rumour had it that Lois Leakey got busy with both Diane and Jane at various times. Who knows?! What a life those woman led, though.

Forgot to add this, with pictures of a pretty young Jane.

This is one of the greatest losses to humanity in the last 100 years.

[Quote] Let's not pretend she was in the middle of some new study on primates and about to release some new revelations.

“She was very old, so she was worthless and no one should care she died.”

Oh no! What happened??

Did one of the monkeys finally get her?!

[quote] Let's not pretend she was in the middle of some new study on primates and about to release some new revelations.

She was on a speaking tour. She’s pictured in the attached article speaking last week at the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Forum at The Plaza Hotel in New York.

She was a class act who spent her entire life learning. We should celebrate her life!

I had lunch with her once with some nonprofit work and supporting a fundraiser she was doing. Just as she seemed, no-nonsense, kind, careful, intensely passionate while keeping things in objective context. A pro, a little quirky, complete integrity. We talked about the bushmeat crisis she saw happening, regional differences in chimpanzee culture, environmental change and some African political issues. That was 20 years ago.

She had two staff at another table, nice young women who obviously were fixated. She seemed a bit frail but looked healthy. Great complexion. Saw her at her talk that night. She had 2,500 people doing their ga-ga routine that week. She stayed afterwards for over two hours to talk to every person who wanted to talk with her.

Oh, she was intense about water. If one had water served, you'd better finish it or she'd take it with her. I suspected the acolytes would have carried any water out with buckets on their heads.

Obviously the experience made an impression. I appreciate her achievements for conservation and field study. She defended her approach, although her methodology was idiosyncratic at times. She felt that the human element was so pervasive now that there was no point in keeping a "prime directive" approach to primate studies because isolation was over.

God best not fuck with Penny Patterson!

r46 is one lucky bastard! Cherish those memories.

She was a knockout.

On CBS Sunday Morning a few years ago

How many women have ponytails in their 90s?

R51 I DO

A wonderful woman. 😞

Gorilla Girl. She was braver than me.

R54 Not Gorilla Girl! She was with chimps

R7, yes, it's a shame to lose both Redford and Goodall so close together. And I feel bad for them that they had to die while Trump was still in office.

Loved her