Jane Goodall

"Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings. They don't want to admit that they might have minds and personalities because that would make it quite difficult for them to do what they do; so we find that within the lab communities there is a very strong resistance among the researchers to admitting that animals have minds, personalities and feelings."

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Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall

Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist

Jane Goodall is a primatologist and conservationist known for her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees and her advocacy for environmental protection.

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