Why does Jane Goodall hold the pride of place in the study of chimpanzees?

       Jane Goodall shattered the long standing belief that only man used tools. She saw a chimpanzee, sticking a blade of grass into a termite mound, and eating the termites clinging to the blade of grass. Goodall also discovered that, chimpanzees ate other animals occasionally, and that they were more intelligent and less fierce than previously thought. Jane Goodall was the first of Leakey’s angels. Louis Leakey raised funds for the research in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.

       Goodall gave names such as Fifi and David Greybeard to the chimpanzees. She spent months gaining the trust of the chimpanzees, and became a part of their social system. Goodall earned a PhD from Cambridge, the only one to do so without getting an undergraduate degree. She won several prizes, including Woman of the Year Award and the Tyler prize for environmental achievement.