Jane Goodall, pioneering primatologist, conservationist and activist, dies at 91

Jane Goodall, the pioneering primatologist, conservationist and activist who became the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a social media post. Born in London on April 3, 1934, Goodall produced a groundbreaking field study on chimpanzees in the wild in the 1960s and dedicated the latter part of her life to protecting their habitats.