Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall. Written by Karen Mokler.

珍·古道尔。 作者：卡伦·莫克勒。

The Watcher Jane Goodall was born in England in 1934. As a child, she liked to learn about animals and watch how they behaved. Jane loved to read colorful stories about wild animals that lived in Africa. She even dreamed about living there. Jane was sure that, one day, she wanted to work with animals and write stories about them.

观察家珍·古道尔1934年出生于英国。 小时候，她就喜欢了解动物，观察它们的行为。 珍特别爱看关于非洲野生动物的生动故事。 她甚至梦想去那里生活。 珍确信，总有一天她要和动物打交道，写下关于它们的故事。

Off to Africa. At age 18, Jane graduated from high school and became a secretary. She wondered how being a secretary would get her to Africa, but she kept working. By 1957, Jane had saved enough money to take a trip to Kenya in eastern Africa. Within months, she met a famous named Dr. Louis Leakey. Dr. Leakey was studying how apes and humans were alike and different.

出发去非洲。 18岁那年，珍高中毕业，当了一名秘书。 她也不清楚做秘书怎么能帮自己去到非洲，但还是一直坚持工作。 到1957年，珍攒够了钱，终于可以前去东非的肯尼亚旅行了。 才过去几个月，她就见到了著名的路易斯·利基博士。 利基博士当时正在研究类人猿和人类的异同。

At the time, Dr. Leakey needed a new assistant. Even though Jane had no scientific training, he hired her for the job. She learned fast and loved the work. One day, Leakey talked about starting a special field study of chimpanzees. In a field study, scientists live near the animal they want to learn about. For this special study, Dr. Leakey needed someone who was patient and curious. The person would have to feel comfortable living in the forest among the chimps. He asked Jane. For young Jane Goodall, it was a dream come true.

那时候，利基博士正好需要一位新助手。 尽管珍没有接受过专业科学训练，他还是聘用了她。 珍学得很快，也十分热爱这份工作。 一天，利基说起要启动一个黑猩猩的专项野外研究。 野外研究就是科学家住在自己要研究的动物身边开展观察。 做这项特殊研究，利基博士需要一个既有耐心又好奇心强的人。 这个人得能安心住在黑猩猩栖息的森林里。 他邀请了珍。 对年轻的珍·古道尔来说，这简直是美梦成真了。

Into the forest. Goodall was 26 years old in 1960. That year, she went to the Gombe Forest in Tanzania, Africa, where the chimpanzees lived. At Gombe, Jane sat quietly on a hill, watching the chimpanzees all day, every day, even in the rain. Goodall took organized notes. She noticed that the chimps always stayed in family groups. So she gave each chimp in each family group a name that began with the same letter of the alphabet.

走进森林。 1960年，古道尔26岁。 那一年，她来到了非洲坦桑尼亚的贡贝森林，这里是黑猩猩的栖息地。 在贡贝，珍每天静静坐在山丘上，一整天都在观察黑猩猩，哪怕下雨也不例外。 古道尔坚持做条理清晰的观察记录。 她发现黑猩猩总是以家族群为单位活动。 所以她给同一家族的黑猩猩起名字时，都让名字首字母保持一致。

the Gombe gang. For a long time, the chimps were afraid of her. Then a curious older chimp that Goodall had named David Greybeard came to her camp in search of food. She hid a banana under her shirt and let him find it. As his trust in her grew, he led Jane into the forest to meet his family. The Chimp family let her sit and watch them on a daily basis. Her reports about her early observations of the family group upset many long -held scientific beliefs about chimps.

贡贝黑猩猩群落。 一开始很长时间，黑猩猩都很害怕她。 后来，一只好奇心强的年长黑猩猩，也就是珍起名的灰胡子大卫，来到她的营地找食物。 她把一根香蕉藏在衣服下，让大卫自己找到它。 大卫慢慢信任她后，带着珍走进森林，认识了自己的家族。 这个黑猩猩家族允许珍每天坐在旁边观察它们。 她早期对这个家族的观察报告，推翻了科学界对黑猩猩流传已久的很多固有认知。