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In 1962, Flo was one of the first chimpanzees to approach Goodall's camp, along with her infant daughter Fifi. Video of Flo approaching Goodall and allowing Fifi to reach out to touch Goodall's forehead, letting Goodall know she had been accepted, is shown in the IMAX film Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees. [14]
Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ d ɔː l /; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), [3] formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist. [4] She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years' studying the social and family interactions of wild ...
The Gombe Chimpanzee War, also known as the Four-Year War, [3] [4] was a violent conflict between two communities of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in the Kigoma region of Tanzania between 1974 and 1978. The two groups were once unified in the Kasakela community. By 1974, researcher Jane Goodall noticed the community splintering. [5]
When Jane Goodall began observing and studying chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, she was a trailblazer. Her research, now considered groundbreaking, was controversial.
The 90-year-old legendary primatologist is empowering the next generation of environmental changemakers.
Goodall will speak just short of her 89th birthday, six decades after her breakthrough discoveries on chimpanzees in Africa.
Jane Goodall began her first field study of chimpanzee culture in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Goodall had always been passionate about animals and Africa, which brought her to the farm of a friend in the Kenya highlands in 1957. From there, she obtained work as a secretary, but acting on her friend's advice she telephoned Louis ...
Jane Goodall, the famed anthropologist, is celebrating her 90th birthday. ... is exactly what Goodall has been advocating for since her landmark research with chimpanzees back in the 1960s ...