NEET BIOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

KINGDOM ANIMALS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following investigations did Jane Goodall use to study chimpanzees?
A
She brought chimpanzees back to American labs to study them.
B
She traveled to Africa once a year to study chimpanzees.
C
She set up hidden cameras so that she could watch the chimpanzees from far away.
D
She lived in Africa near the chimpanzees and observed them carefully.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Jane Goodall’s famous research on chimpanzees is a classic example of naturalistic observation. Dr. Goodall spent three decades observing chimpanzees in their natural environment in East Africa.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jane’s method was to simply observe and imitate the animals, writing down copious notes in a field journal. One of her first discoveries was that chimpanzees are omnivorous, not vegetarian as had been supposed. On several occasions, she observed the chimps hunting and eating small mammals.

Detailed explanation-3: -As a girl in England, Jane Goodall dreamed of traveling to Africa to study animals in the wild. In the summer of 1960, her dream brought her to the shores of Lake Tanganyika, to observe the wild chimpanzees at Gombe Stream.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jane Goodall set out into the Tanzanian rain forest 50 years ago to study chimpanzee behavior. Her research changed our understanding of our closest relatives’ capabilities, emotions, and relationships and redefined what it means to be human. Later Goodall shifted her focus to saving chimps and their habitats.

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