WOMEN IN SCIENCE JANE GOODALL PRIMATOLOGIST AND CONSERVATIONIST By Michael Capek Content Consultant Randall Susman PhD Professor and Chair Department of Anatomical Sciences Stony Brook University Essential Library An Imprint of Abdo Publishing abdopublishing com
CHAPTER ONE CLOSE ENCOUNTERS 5 Jane Goodall had been roaming the steep hills and thorny thickets of Gombe Stream Nature Preserve since first light one morning in August 1960 Like most other days since she had arrived in Tanzania one month previously she had not seen any of the elusive creatures she'd come to study The country's dense forests and valleys she had discovered might be the ideal places for a chimpanzee but they were not the most pleasant environment for a human who wished to observe the animals up close Many days she heard chimps and she occasionally spied them far off through binoculars Usually though they were long gone by the time she reached the place where she first spotted them Reports from locals said more than 150 chimps lived in Jane Goodall was 26 years old when she began her research at Gombe Stream Nature Preserve
