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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]
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 ...
A sculpture of Jane Goodall and David Greybeard outside the Field Museum in Chicago Community of wild eastern chimpanzees in Tanzania The Kasekela chimpanzee community (formerly spelled Kasakela [ 1 ] ) is a habituated community of wild eastern chimpanzees that lives in Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania . [ 2 ]
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.
Jane Goodall with a Chimpanzee (Bettmann Archive) She’s spent the subsequent decades raising awareness over the ethical treatment of not just chimps, but all animals, as well as being a vocal ...
The 90-year-old legendary primatologist is empowering the next generation of environmental changemakers.
Jane Goodall. Jane Goodall first travelled to Tanzania in 1960 at the age of 26 with no formal college training. [4] At the time, it was accepted [dubious – discuss] that humans were undoubtedly similar to chimpanzees, sharing over 98% of the same genetic code. [4] However, little was known about chimpanzee behaviour or community structure.
Goodall will speak just short of her 89th birthday, six decades after her breakthrough discoveries on chimpanzees in Africa. Conservation legend Jane Goodall will speak at FIU this week Skip to ...