From historic Everest summits to Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research, National Geographic magazine and its famed covers have ...

Photographer Michael Nichols captured Jane Goodall as she studied chimpanzee behavior in the wild in 1990. “We should be kind to animals because it makes better humans of us all,” Goodall once told ...

National Geographic helped the famous conservationist get her start—and followed her chimpanzee research and advocacy for wildlife in a career that forever changed how we understand animal behavior.