A new exhibit invites you to step into Jane Goodall’s life
Jane Goodall began observing chimpanzees in 1960, but her first study of animal behavior took place some 20 years earlier, when she was about 5 years old. One afternoon, she disappeared from home for several hours. Just as her panicked mother was about to contact the police, young Jane returned. “Well, I’ve been in a henhouse, waiting to see how a hen laid an egg,” she explained. “Nobody’d tell me, so I just sat down. And now I know.” That curiosity helped propel Goodall to become one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century. Her evolution from precocious child to “global icon” is documented in “Becoming Jane,” an exhibit at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C., through September 7. After that, the exhibit heads to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. For an exhibit devoted to a researcher whose equipment was as simple as a pen and paper, “Becoming Jane” is technology heavy....