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A 1987 Far Side cartoon sparked outrage from the Jane Goodall Institute, until Goodall herself saw it

Ellsworth Toohey
Oct 10, 2025
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Jane Goodall (vitrolphoto / Shutterstock.com)

A 1987 Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson depicting Jane Goodall as a chimp’s “tramp” sparked outrage from the Jane Goodall Institute, which threatened legal action against both the cartoonist and newspapers that ran the controversial image. The Institute fired off a blistering letter calling the cartoon “incred…

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