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 wan… - Jane Goodall

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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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About Jane Goodall

Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist. She is best-known for her study of chimpanzee social and family life in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania and she did that for 45 years. She also founded the Jane Goodall Institute. In April 2002, she was named a UN Messenger of Peace,

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Birth Name: Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall
Alternative Names: Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall Dame Jane Morris Goodall Dame Jane Goodall Jane Morris Goodall
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