Jane has been vegan since 2015, and she strongly believes in the benefits of a vegan diet for the planet and animal welfare. She has also written a vegan cookbook titled “#EATMEATLESS: Good for Animals, the Earth & All” to inspire us all to shift to a plant-based diet.
Jane’s mother, Vanne Morris-Goodall, steadily supported Jane’s dreams. She accompanied Jane to her first stay in Africa, as British authorities found it inappropriate for a young woman to undertake such a trip by herself.
Her love for chimpanzees had a very early start. When she was one year old, her father gifted her a toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. Jane fell in love with it, and she still keeps it in her home in England.
She was awarded a Ph.D. in ethology by Cambridge University in 1966, being one of the few people to receive a doctoral title without a college degree. The title of her thesis was “Behaviour of free-living chimpanzees”. In the decades after, Jane received many awards, both at home in Britain and abroad. She is also one of the few women in the world to have both the titles of Dame of the British Empire and Doctor.
