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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

Saturday, November 11, 2023

Scientists create green glowing monkey

Talker News, Stephen Beech via SWNS via MSN.com, 11/9/23; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Images show green fluorescence signals in different body parts of three-day-old chimera.

Primates – Intro to Anthropology: Biological, Cultural Evolution of Humans (nebraska.edu)

Scientists create first live chimera monkey

Am I transhuman now? Can I [blank] her?

FrankenScience has taken a new twist with the first live birth of a "chimeric" monkey. And it glows green.

[CHIMERA: hybrid of two creatures into one, such as a rat-bird or humanoid harpy, found in mythology because this fusion was done in the past.]

They'll never make a human-owl chimera, right?

Chimeras in mythology, particularly Greek

Scientists from China reported the “long-sought” birth of a male primate containing a high proportion of cells derived from a monkey stem cell line.

The contribution of stem cells in different tissue types ranged from 21 percent to 92 percent, according to the Chinese team.

The “chimeric” monkey is composed of cells that originated from two genetically distinct embryos of the same species of monkey, according to research published in the journal Cell.

Please stop testing on us and torturing us.

The process has previously been achieved in rats and mice but, until now, has not been possible in other species, including non-human primates.

Study leader Dr. Zhen Liu, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), said: “This is a long-sought goal in the field.

"Please leave us alone."

“This research not only has implications for understanding naive pluripotency [ability of cells to do many things] in other primates, including humans, but it also has relevant practical implications for genetic engineering and species conservation.

“Specifically, this work could help us to generate more precise monkey models [to do torturous animal testing on] for studying neurological diseases as well as for other biomedicine studies.” More

Transhuman: genetically modified w/animal DNA

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Why men's testosterone is so low (video)

Joseph Everett, What I've Learned, 11/15/20; Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(What I've Learned) [Mood is strange, and so much of it depends on our testosterone (male and masculinizing hormone called androgen) levels. Social factors can depress our testosterone, just as xenoestrogens (xenoestrogens) in the environment. The herbicide atrazine (a teratogen) really does turn frogs gay or into females, as Alex Jones used to scream about. These chemicals mimic estrogen. Compounds in plastics like the plasticizer BPA and dangerous and can turn us fat, anxious, depressed, weak, effeminate, possibly even sending over the social contagion that accounts for some transgender affectations and behaviors.]

0:00 - Our brains love social dynamics
1:17 - Status and Testosterone
2:50 - Instagram and Mental Health
3:03 - Why raise Testosterone and How?
4:16 - Testosterone changes your behavior
5:48 - Social Anxiety and Testosterone
8:00 - Are you depressed or just low status?
8:53 - Does Instagram teach you you are low status?
9:37 - How many people should we be comparing ourselves to?
11:52 - Testosterone is a positive feedback loop

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Thursday, July 25, 2019

Living TREE bridges and Yetis (video)

Bing, 6/27/19; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly, Wiki edit

The roots of invention

Monsoons make this the wettest.

Welcome to the wettest place on Earth. "Living root bridges" can be found in the tropical rainforests of Meghalaya state, northeastern India, among the wettest places on Earth.

The gentle waterways that flow through the region’s valleys become gushing torrents during the summer monsoon season and would wash away traditional bamboo bridges.

So generations of indigenous Khasi people have devised a way of building root bridges by shaping living trees, like one near the village of Mawsynram.

It works like this: Rubber fig trees are planted or located on opposite riverbanks. As the trees' above-ground roots grow, the Khasi guide them across the water, sometimes with the support of temporary scaffolding like bamboo.

Limestone cave expedition, Jainta Hills

After years of tending, the roots eventually join and take hold of each other, forming a living suspension bridge that provides safe passage over swollen rivers. The innovation has proved critical to the Khasi people.

In this environment, bridges made of harvested materials would quickly rot and fall apart, leaving villages cut off and isolated. Building a living root bridge requires patience, however.

It takes about 15 to 30 years to grow a bridge sturdy enough to support humans. But the investment pays off. As these bridges age, they get stronger. Some are 100 feet long and can hold over 50 people.

Giant "wild men" of the world

Yeti (Mande Barung) of India

Of course they exist and gov'ts know. Ask Lloyd Pye.

In the U.S. knows them as Bigfoot, in Canada as Sasquatch, in China as Yeren, in Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, the Chechnia, and the Caucasus as Almas or "Wild Man," in Brazil as Mapinguary, in Sumatra as Orang Pendek, in Australia as Yowie, in Vietnam and Borneo as Batatut, Indonesia as Sajarang Gigi, in Bangladesh as Ban-Manush, in India as Mande Burung and, most famously of all, in Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet as Yeti or "Abominable Snowmen."

The little-known Indian version of this legendary ape-like creature is called mande barung -- or "forest man" -- and is reputed to live in the remote west Garo Hills of the north-eastern state of Meghalaya, India.

I was invited by passionate Yeti-believer Dipu Marak to travel throughout the area to hear for myself what he says is compelling evidence of the existence of a black and grey ape-like animal which stands about nearly 10 feet (3m) tall.

The Mande Burung is a cryptozoological ape-like creature that inhabits the Meghalaya subtropical forests in the remote Garo Hills of the Northeast India. In July of 2019 I was invited by passionate yeti believer Dipu Marak to travel throughout the area of the Garo Hills, Meghalaya, in search of India's Yeti.

Will Indian Army's Yeti post boost interest in cryptozoology?

No proof allowed not even hair DNA

(Indpendent.co.uk) [In 2008] a group of amateur "Yeti-hunters" from Meghalaya gave two hairs they say they discovered in a "nest" of the Mande Burung to a renowned British primatologist. Having examined the hairs, Ian Redmond said they were like that of no other creature known to live in these jungles. Even more teasingly, Dr. Redmond said that under the microscope the hairs most closely resembled those of a human, a chimp, a gorilla, or the purported "Yeti hairs" brought back by the late Sir Edmund Hilary's 1953 Mt. Everest expedition. More

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Who's eating our cousins the Bonobos?

Terese Hart, bonoboincongo.com (National Geo, Oct. 14, 2012; Wisdom Quarterly

A dehydrated and stressed baby bonobo that was abandoned in the sun outside the kitchen where his mother is being grilled and devoured. How can anyone justify doing this to a great ape that is 99.6% us? This mother and child had a life living free in the wild until she was shot by poachers (Terese Hart/bonoboincongo.com).

Why are We Eating Bonobos? Can We Save Africa’s Vast Wildernesses from Destruction?

Bonobo in "heavenly sleep" (Terese Hart)

Baby bonobo orphans are pouring into primate sanctuaries across central Africa as thousands of adults are being killed, smoked, and bundled with monkeys, pangolins, small antelope, and bush pigs for sale in distant "bushmeat" markets.

We are about to reach a tipping point in Africa beyond which it is going to be very hard to save the last populations of Africa’s most enigmatic species like the bonobo, mountain gorilla, lion, wild dog, giraffe, rhino, elephant, and cheetah.

Years of civil war, unrest, and corruption have broken the link for many people who now live in cities and have evolved a new belief system, together with their new consumption habits. Bonobo populations have declined significantly due to the bushmeat trade in recent years.

People are now eating them, so we need to look at what this represents in regard to our future in Africa. Ongoing anti-poaching efforts in source countries have yielded many successes, and many more people are trying to keep bonobos and other wildlife safe within protected areas. Forests and river basins are too vast, while resources and staff are too few for enforcement of new laws to be effective in slowing the erosion of Africa’s natural heritage.

We are just years away from that terrible morning when we all open our eyes and realize that we did not do enough when we could have and that now there was nothing left to save or do. As of today, we still have something to save and we had better get out there... More