Overview

• Jane Goodall, 91, discussed her decade-long marriage to National Geographic photographer Hugo van Lawick on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
• She revealed that their marriage began to drift apart as their careers diverged, with van Lawick working in the Serengeti and Goodall remaining in Gombe, Tanzania.
• Goodall credited van Lawick’s photography and films with helping to validate and share her discoveries about chimpanzee behavior with the world.
• The couple, married from 1964 to 1974, had one son, Hugo Eric Louis, and remained professionally impactful despite their eventual separation.
• Goodall expressed a wish that their marriage could have continued, describing it as a good one despite the challenges of their diverging paths.