With funds raised by her friend and mentor, noted paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, 26-year-old Jane Goodall began her journey on July 14, 1960 to Gombe Stream National Park on Lake Tanganyika, in what will later be Tanzania, Africa where she began her groundbreaking studies of chimpanzee communities.
LEFT: Dame Jane Morris Goodall; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934, English Dame Jane Morris Goodall, formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. She is considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees.and anthropologist.[She is considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees.
