On October 2, local time, Leonardo DiCaprio,"Little Plum", posted a message to mourn Jane Goodall on his personal social account. The full text is as follows:

"Today, we lost a true hero, an inspiration to millions, a dear friend."

¡°Jane Goodall, a lifelong dedication to protecting our planet, speaking for wildlife and the ecosystems it depends on to survive, her pioneering research on chimpanzees in Tanzania has changed our understanding of how these closely related species live, socialize and think ¨C a reminder that we are not only connected to chimpanzees and other human monkeys but also to all life on Earth.¡±

¡°For decades, Jane has travelled the world with tireless enthusiasm, awakening generation after generation to the awareness of the wonders of the natural world. She talks directly to the next generation, instilling hope, responsibility and the belief that ¡®everyone can bring change¡¯.

¡°The last message I sent to Jane was simple: ¡®You are my hero,¡¯ and now we all have to take on her torch to protect our common home.¡±

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"When I meet my eyes with a chimpanzee, an individual who is thinking and reasoning is also looking back at me." This is a quote from Jane Goodall in the documentary The Legendary Life of Jane Goodall.

Stills from the documentary "The Legendary Life of Jane Goodall"

This documentary, launched by National Geographic magazine in 2017, recorded in detail the animal behaviorist's presence in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, Africa. In 1960, 26-year-old Goodall went to Gombe Nature Reserve (later upgraded to Gombe National Park) for the first time, and had close contact with chimpanzee groups. Since then, it has been a 38-year field scientific research career. Within four months of setting foot in Gombe Reserve, Goodall made two world-sensational discoveries: chimpanzees are not vegetarians, and they can use tools. The latter directly reshapes the defining boundary between humans and animals.

In the documentary, this young scholar wearing iconic khaki shorts and green shirt has since become a "friend of chimpanzees" and "Grandma Goodall" in domestic middle school biology textbooks. The Gombe chimpanzee research project she led has been going on for 65 years and has not stopped. She is also the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a United Nations Messenger of Peace. At the end of her life, she still traveled to lectures around the world, talking about animal welfare and environmental protection issues.

On October 1, local time, during a lecture tour in California, the United States, Goodall passed away due to natural causes at the age of 91. This time, the spiritual leader of animal activists walked off the podium again and returned to the deep forest.