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Jane Goodall The Great Conservationist Jane Goodall is the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees, having closely observed their behavior for the past quarter century in the jungles of the Gombe Game Reserve in Africa, living in the chimps' environment and gaining their confidence. Her observations and discoveries are intemationally heralded. Her research and writing have made, and are ...

Photograph Courtesy of Philip Greenspun Dian Fossey and the Gorillas of the Virunga Volcanoes She saw her gorillas being driven to extinction, and started a war... Another bothersome tourist, Dr. Louis Leakey grumbled to himself. The American woman wanted to tour Dr. Leakey's excavation at Olduvia. Leakey was by then one of the most well-known paleoanthropologists in the world. In 1959, with his ...

Brilliant Careers: Before Jane Goodall went to Gombe in Tanganyika, almost nothing accurate was know about chimpanzees. By Douglas Cruickshank.