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Sisters of the Jungle: The Trailblazing Women Who Shaped the Study of Wild Primates

Keriann McGoogan

Douglas & McIntyre

Jane Goodall and her mother felt too sick to journey to see a doctor when they fell ill with (probable) malaria in 1960, during Goodall’s first foray into Tanzania to study chimpanzees. When Goodall returned to work, she became the first primatologist to observe chimpanzees using tools and eating meat.

Until her death in September 2025, Goodall worked as an observer, writer and champion for biodiversity and conservation. She was an inspiration to many, including author Keriann McGoogan, who studied lemurs in Madagascar and howler monkeys in Belize.

Goodall was the first of three women whose fi

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