Well, at Gombe, the longest running chimp project, fifty years today!
Fifty years ago today, Jane Goodall arrived at Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve (now Gombe National Park) in Tanzania and began documenting the lives of the chimpanzees that lived there. When Goodall ended her fieldwork to advocate for the chimps and the environment in general, other researchers took up the work, and the Gombe chimp research project is now one of the longest running studies of a population of wild animals. Since the study's start in 1960, researchers have published more than 200 scientific papers about the chimps, including some of the most important discoveries about our primate cousins. Here are the top five:
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In the Shadow of Man was one of the books that convinced me to study Biology when I went to college. Jane Goodall was an inspiration for me. I am happy to see that her work goes on a half century later.
Eldest told me this was coming up, Sunday evening. He is terribly excited by this after watching a film in school last week. Of course he also explained how he would like to invent a bazooka toting robot, to deal with poachers.
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Through a Window by Jane Goodall was astonishing and wonderful.
In the Shadow of Man was one of the books that convinced me to study Biology when I went to college. Jane Goodall was an inspiration for me. I am happy to see that her work goes on a half century later.