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A STUDENT OF AFRICAN WILDLIFE
It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National
Park in East Africa. Following Janes way of studying chimps, our group
are all going to visit them in the forest. Jane has studied these families of
chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they
behave like humans. Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first
activity of the day. This means going back to the place where we left the
family sleeping in a tree the night before. Everybody sits and waits in the
shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off. Then
we follow as they wander into the forest. Most of the time, chimps either
feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family. Jane
warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the
afternoon and she is right. However, the evening makes it all worthwhile.
We watch the mother chimp and her babies play in the tree. Then we see
them go to sleep together in their nest for the night. We realize that the
bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human
family.
Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour. She
spent years observing and recording their daily activities. Since her
childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own
environment. However, this was not easy. When she first arrived in
Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. Only
after her mother came to help her for the first few months was she
allowed to begin her project. Her work changed the way people think
about chimps. For example, one important thing she discovered was that
chimps hunt and eat meat. Until then everyone had thought chimps ate
only fruit and nuts. She actually observed chimps as a group hunting a
monkey and then eating it. She also discovered how chimps
communicate with each other, and her study of their body language
helped her work out their social system.
For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken about
making
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