![]() ![]() And though it often seems a lifetime ago, she remembers them all. And that's another moment I'll never forget. And then a rather different kind of memory was the first time that a wild chimpanzee mother came up to me and allowed her infant to reach out with that wondering expression in his eyes to touch me, and that, of course, was Flo was her infant Flint. It was tremendous feeling of accomplishment and exhilaration and pride in the fact that I'd been accepted. To have a chimpanzee, just sit there and watch me and know that I was there and not mind. Indeed, often callous to her youngsters, yet Jane could not possibly have predicted that Passion would become a killer attacking with aggression so violent that she paid no attention to human observers even when they triedĪnd down again, and searched and been rewarded yes, by seeing chimps, but chimps that ran away every time I went up to them. Jane had always described Passion as a somewhat unnatural mother, cold and indifferent. And we suspect that in that four years, in fact, they were responsible for the deaths of 10 newborn babies. They were watched as they tried, but failed to catch two more. And over the next four years, Passion and her daughter Pom were known to kill and eat three newborn babies. And I found this almost impossible to believe that when I got to Gombe a week later, it was indeed true. Since she was 1 year old, and that this mother Passion had killed the baby, and she and her daughter and her son had shared the body between them. Every one of the seven males and at least one of the three females who had moved to the south had disappeared. The males of the larger Kasakela community, the ones that we're studying today, systematically began to hunt down individuals of the smaller southern community to attack them when they found them on their own or in small groups and within a four year period. Two years later, a series of events began which were amongst the most horrifying that we've seen at Gombe. I started off studying one community, and in 1972 that community divided into two and one part of it moved down into the south of the range that the whole community had shared. People's idea of the gentle, noble, savage would have been exemplified by the way of life of the chimps. Have had a very different picture of the chimpanzees to that which we have today. It is 22 years since she first set foot on Gombe shores. Though not even Jane could have predicted her study would last this long. With her on this trip are her mother returning for a nostalgic visit and Grub now 15. Though she welcomes the opportunity to share her world. Any new, particularly new developments, new behavior? Two quite interesting new developments. Eager crowds gathered to hear the latest chapter in the lives of the chimps. Wherever she goes and her annual lecture tours. He wanted to follow his adolescent brother. She has become a celebrity in her own right. She is sought all over the world, a rarity among scientists. Her journey would take Goodall to the East African country of Tanzania, then knownĪccomplished author, speaker and now a PhD. His faith in Jane Goodall would lead to one of the most important scientific studies of our time. ![]() Someone with uncommon patience and dedication. I want someone unbiased by academic learning, he said. Famed anthropologist Louis Leakey had long searched for someone to study wild chimpanzees for clues to the behavior of early men. I was absolutely fascinated with the idea of being out in the jungle, out with the animals, feeling a part of it all. I think I first began to dream of going to Africa after reading Dr. Even when I was very tiny, I was absolutely fascinated by animals. When her mother gave the infant a chimp doll outraged friends predicted nightmares. ![]()
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