CALIFORNIA AND BROOKLYN — DR. JANE GOODALL, the conservationist who gained global respect for her pioneering field research on chimpanzees, their ability to use tools, and their relationships with humans, has passed away at 91.

The Jane Goodall Institute announced on Wednesday, Oct. 1 that its founder died of natural causes while in California as part of a U.S. speaking tour.

Dr. Goodall, who was one of eight students at England’s Cambridge University to be accepted into a doctoral program without first having an undergraduate degree, earned her Ph.D. in ethology (the study of animal behavior) from Cambridge during the mid-1960s.

Dr. Goodall was a keynote speaker in Brooklyn on at least two recent occasions. She spoke at the Brooklyn Museum on her 89th birthday, April 3,

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