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Thursday, October 2, 2025

Jane Goodall says goodbye: final words

(60 Minutes) Jane Goodall and Tom Mangelsen: 60 Minutes Archives

Jane Goodall's last interview (Sept. 2025)

(dreamlion) Oct. 2, 2025: Recorded on September 23, 2025 (eight days before her death on October 1, 2025) for the Wallstreet Journal's "Journal Podcast," and published online by the Wall Street Journal on September 26, 2025.

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Vegan Jane Goodall, 91, dies, natural causes

Animals trust/love kind vegan

VEGAN Dr. Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, was a remarkable example of courage and conviction, working tirelessly throughout her life to raise awareness about threats to wildlife, promote conservation, and inspire a more harmonious, sustainable relationship between people, animals, and the natural world. She passed away in her sleep. in the latter part of her life, she expanded her focus as a vegan/vegetarian and became a global advocate for human rights, animal welfare, species and environmental protection, and many other crucial issues. Donate to her legacy

I was once a girl in England, dreaming of living with and saving the animals.

Wildlife lover Jane falls in love and marries wildlife photographer Hugo van Lawick, Africa.

Jane Hopecast podcast: Emma Lewisham

"I stopped by the end of 60-something like that," Jane said of eating meat. The legendary Dr. Goodall has lived a life full of compassion and advocating for animals, sharing her immense knowledge with generations of people eager to soak up her wisdom. Dr. Goodall's climate activism has been astoundingly inspiring for countless compassionate people seeking a better, safer, healthier world, and she has clearly lived a long life as an environmental leader and role model. More: Jane Goodall: Here's why I stopped eating meat in the 1960s

Jane's Vegan Cookbook

#EATMEATLESS: Good for Animals, Earth & All

Why did you become a vegan, Jane? - I read ANIMAL LIBERATION by Peter Singer
Jane Goodall and her life in the wild (Science Friday)

What are you looking at? - I want to be like you!

Dame Jane Morris Goodall (April 3, 1934–Oct. 1, 2025), was an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist [3].

She was considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, having studied the social and family interactions of wild chimps for over 60 years. She was scheduled to speak in Pasadena today, Oct. 1, 2025, for the local chapter of her Roots & Shoots and later this week at UCLA's Royce Hall.

Vegan Jane Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall explains Veganism (meatless, plant-based, ahimsa)

How she changed what we know about chimps

Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees: National Geographic's 1965 documentary follows the experiences of British zoologist Jane Goodall, who spent five years studying chimps in Tanzania's Gombe Stream Preserve and discusses her belief that thorough understanding of chimpanzee behavior will lead humans toward a clearer understanding of themselves. (ThisOldVideo2: This is the 1988 edited version posted Feb. 6, 2021).
Jane Goodall, primatologist and chimpanzee champion, dies at 91 (National Geographic)
Goodall’s original tale of chimpanzees still astonishes today

Dr. Leakey's legacy

Leakey's Angels (pinterest.com)

Another of Dr. Louis Leakey's legacies stems from his role in fostering field research of primates in their natural habitats, which he saw as key to understanding human evolution. He personally focused on three female researchers:

Jane Goodall,
Dian Fossey,
Birutė Galdikas.

He called them "The Trimates" [2][3]. Each went on to become an important scholar in the field of primatology. Leakey encouraged and supported many other doctoral (Ph.D.) candidates, most notably from Cambridge. As well, Leakey played a role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife. More

Death comes to us all. I wish I'd prepared more.

Goodall (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall and formerly known as Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall) first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, Africa, to observe its chimpanzees in 1960 [4].

As the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, Goodall has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues.

You're like a funny chimp, Mr. Jim-Kim.

She was on the board of the Rights for Nonhumans Project from 2022 until her death in 2025 [5][6]. In April 2002, she was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Goodall was an honorary member of the World Future Council. More

Jane Goodall live at Royce Hall (tickets-center.com)
SAVE TREES: Amigos de los Rios - Emerald Necklace
KTLA 5, Oct. 1, 2025; National Geographic via ThisOldVideo2; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sunday, July 20, 2025

The Uncanny Valley: What is 'human'?

Not all humans today are of earthling origin, which is to say, there are many hybrid ETs

North 02: What is the uncanny valley?

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Wild chimps share alcohol, get drunk

Let's get fruit, Jane. - Without Tarzan?

SUMMARY: The use of fermented foods and drinks by humans is so widespread as to be considered ubiquitous, with their use largely linked to dietary benefits and social bonding [123].

The discovery of a molecular adaptation in an alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme that greatly increased ethanol metabolism in the common ancestor of African apes suggests that the incorporation of fermented fruit in the human diet [such as kombucha and fermented relishes and foods] has ancient origins [4].

However, little is known about the inclusion of ethanolic foods in the diet of nonhuman great apes. Here [at Science Direct], we document for the first time the repeated ingestion and sharing of naturally fermented African breadfruit (Treculia africana) with confirmed ethanol (alcohol), by wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) [humans' last common ancestor] in Cantanhez [Forests] National Park, [Southern] Guinea-Bissau.

Widespread plant food sharing in great apes and the recent confirmation of ethanol presence in diverse fruit species [5] suggest the sharing, and dietary incorporation, of ethanol-containing foods is extensive and may have played a long-standing role in hominoid societies.

Current Biology, Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits (ScienceDirect), April 21, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Earliest human species found in EU

New extinct human species discovered in Europe?!

(History with Kayleigh) Premiered March 26, 2025: SIMA DEL ELEFANTE, Spain. Is it possible that a previously unknown human species or subspecies roamed Europe without us realizing until now? Let's talk about the latest discovery from Spain, where researchers have discovered the oldest known evidence of a human species in Western Europe.

Does the Bible include hidden Egyptian mythology?

Sources

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Structure older than humans found

Olawale Ogunjimi, Past Chronicles (MSN); CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Researchers find a structure older than humans, which tells us a lot about our early ancestors

You ancestors built that, Douglas. Tell them.

Scientists have discovered primitive wooden tools and structures of about 476,000 years old at a site in Zambia's Kalambo Falls.

This new discovery runs contrary to what we have always been told about the lives of the species that existed before the ancient Homo sapiens.

First, the discovery of these tools, which pre-date the oldest modern humans, is proof that our early ancestors were knowledgeable about construction.

Based on these findings, it's safe to conclude that the unknown hominin species that existed before Homo sapiens were intelligent and resourceful [much like bonobos, gorillas, chimps, orangutans, monkeys, almas, and sasquatches].

Am I your predecessor, modern humans?

They made the best use of their surroundings by harnessing the resources at their disposal to produce innovative results.

According to the research, the wooden structure, which is older than humanity, had "two interlocking logs joined transversely by an intentionally cut notch."

This shows that the species that pre-dated the evolution of Homo sapiens were smart enough to conceive ideas beyond their immediate and tangible environment.

What's more, the researchers also discovered a cut log, digging stick, and other tools that were well-preserved because they were left in a waterlogged area that gave no room for bacterial degradation. More

Friday, September 15, 2023

The Chimpanzee Civil War of 1974 (video)

Sheldon S., CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The insanity of the Gombe Chimpanzee War

(National Park Diaries) Aug. 21, 2023: GOMBE NATIONAL PARK The Gombe Chimpanzee War was an intergroup conflict between two chimpanzee communities in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, Africa.

Prior to this conflict being observed, it was thought that chimpanzees were largely peaceful creatures and vegetarians. But Jane Goodall and other researchers soon opened up a whole new world of chimpanzee conflict and social dynamics with their observations of this conflict.

It's a fascinating look at the brutality of the natural world and perhaps provides an opportunity to reflect on our human capacity for violence as well.

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Sources and resources

Images and music:

Storyblocks
BBC's Planet Earth
Jane Goodall Institute
Rudicell et al, 2010
Konrad Wothe/Minden Pictures

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

"The Bonobo and the Atheist" (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; ScienceFriday.com

A female primate stares into the eyes of a baby bonobo, our closest evolutionary relative.

The Bonobo and the Atheist

"Science is not inherently evil [but merely situationally-evil and motivated by money]. Science is not inherently good. And so I don't know what to do with people who argue that science is going to be the solution to building a moral society" (Frans de Waal, biologist and author of The Bonobo and the Atheist).

In The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates, primatologist Frans de Waal explores traits like empathy and fairness in our closest relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees, and argues that human morality [Buddhist sila] is not the product of rational thought or religion. Rather, it evolved long ago. LISTEN

Friday, July 15, 2011

Are there Ape-Human Hybrids? (BBC video)

(BBC Worldwide) Charlotte Uhlenbroek explains just how similar bonobos' social habits are to our own.

AUDIO: How science treats talking chimps (NPR)

(Tehinfidel) The following is a montage of chimpanzees exhibiting human-like behavior, meshed together from various clips and set to the song "Bark" by Black Era).

"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed [spiritu, spirit] into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

- On the Origin of Species, Chp. 14: Recapitulation and Conclusion

Bigfoot as Simple Human-Ape Hybrid
Human-bipedal-primate hybridization would explain the giant yeti or Abominable Snowmen of Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. These yakshis or rakshasas in Buddhist cosmology, such as the famous Yakkha Alavaka, are well known and share many human traits including speech and language.

The only known authentic footage is called the "Snow Walker" video. It was taken by two Himalayan hikers on a 1992 expedition in Nepal. Yetis are part of mountain lore, particularly among the Sherpas.

The West found this out when British expeditions were trying to get to the top of "Mt. Everest" (Nepalese, Sagarmāthā; Tibetan, Jomolungma, "Holy Mother"; Chinese, Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng, "Jomolungma Peak") more than a century ago. British climbers also saw them.

This famous clip depicts an apelike creature walking on two legs struggling through the snow. But yetis are found across the Himalayan range spanning the world's three highest peaks -- Pakistan's K2, Nepal's Everest, and India's Kangchenjunga (Sikkim).

Giants live around 3rd highest mountain Kangchenjunga

Home of Yetis and Yakkhas: Kangchenjunga

Where is the Yaksha Kingdom?
Wisdom Quarterly edit of "Yaksha" (en.wikipedia.org)

In Buddhist and older Indian mythology, the yakṣa (Pali, yakkha) has a dual personality. On the one hand, it may refer to an inoffensive nature-fairy, associated with woods and mountains. On the other hand, it may refer to a darker creature, a kind of ogre, malevolent beast, or ghost that haunts the wilderness and waylays and devours travelers, similar to rakṣasas. Yakṣis or yakṣiṇīs (female ogres, possibly related to the word yetis) are regarded as even more vicious than the males, possibly due to their hormonal and instinctive impulses to protect their young. In Buddhist mythology, they are overseen by the spacefaring "Guardian of the Northern Quarter," a beneficent deva. According to the Mahavamsa, Prince Vijaya encountered the royalty of the yakkhas -- red haired giants in Sri Lanka akin to Steve Quayle's "giant" (nephilim) captured recently in Afghanistan's mountains, which are also part of the Himalayan range.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Real-life MONSTERS today (videos)

Shape shifting is rarely this dramatic but rather as natural and subtle as a chameleon.

Bigfoot (rakshasas)? Ha. Greys (kumbandhas)? Ha, ha. Giants (asuras), Mothmen (kinnaras), hunter-cam spirits (pretas, narakas), lake serpents, remnant dinosaurs, vipers (nagas, reptilians, shape-shifters)? Ha, ha, ha! This first video shows that Bigfoot could be as real as a related primate:

A real "Bigfoot," Oliver the Humanzee (half human, half chimpanzee) seems to be the result of inter-species breeding, bestiality, or fortuitous mutations.

Could Abominable Snowmen (yetis) and Bigfoots (rakshasas) be human-primate hybrids? Humans are close relatives of chimpanzees, so it would be like horses and donkeys producing mules -- in this case producing "humanzees" like Oliver. Bonobo-apes are even more closely related to humans. Reports of Sasquatches (the Native American word for Bigfoot) describe a very strong and intelligent bipedal ape.

It would all seem ludicrous if it were not for the corresponding entities in Buddhist cosmology and the increasing body of evidence for earthling creatures beyond our common experience.

Greys and human-alien hybrids who genetically manipulated humans from primates to Homo habilis to Homo sapien-sapiens to the future Homo spiritus.

Can cattle mutilation be explained as genetic manipulation and testing for radioactive fallout from old nuclear tests in Nevada?

Sea humanoids? Real-life human sea monsters, mermaids, and mermen?

If UFOs really exist, why don't they appear in daylight over large cities? Oh, they do?

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Sex: Who Enjoys It?

"The real reason dinosaurs became extinct" (Farside by Gary Larson)

03.24.09 in Animals by Robin Lloyd
Gang of Juvenile Dinosaurs Discovered
A new fossil find suggests that young Triceratops dinosaurs were gregarious gangsters, not solitary types.

Animal sex is at least as strange and varied as human sex. A male might copulate with many females, but female animals of many species can be choosy, too. Homosexuality is common. Monogamy is rare. And the animal kingdom is full of swingers.

Sex Apes: Humankind's closest relative
Sex Arrests: Enforcement spurs rise in Web sex arrests

Do Animals Enjoy Sex?
LiveScience.com (3/25/09)

Animals obviously hook up, at least during mating season. But do they like it? According to experts, there are two answers: "yes" and "it is impossible to know."

"Mosquitoes, I don’t know," hedged Mark Bekoff, a University of Colorado biologist and author of The Emotional Lives of Animals (New World Library), "but across mammals, they enjoy sex." In fact the enjoyment of sex among humans and among animals may be similar in that it's all experienced in very primitive parts of the brain.

Really wild orgasms

Not only do animals enjoy the deed, they also likely have orgasms... More>>

03.27.09 in Animals by Robert Roy Britt
Boiling Mad: Crabs Feel Pain
Not only do crabs suffer pain, but they retain a memory of it, study finds.