The Chimpanzees of Gombe (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Goodall
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Diary
- Time of Work: July, 1960, to 1986
- Setting: Gombe, Tanzania
- Principal Characters: Jane Goodall, David Greybeard, Evered, Flo, Faben, Figan, Fifi, Flint, Goblin, Humphrey, Mike, Passion
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary, Sociology, Nature writing, Science and technology
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Science or scientists, Jungles or rain forests, Behaviorism, Animals, Naturalists, Evolution, Biology or biologists, Monkeys, Primates
- Locales: Gombe, Tanzania
Form and Content
This study is divided into nineteen sections, each organizing information from notes by Jane Goodall and her students, colleagues, and Tanzanian associates, supported and broadened by references to other studies. The initial sections provide a history of human-chimpanzee contact, a study of the chimpanzee mind, and a justification of study in the wild with limited human interference. A description of the Gombe habitat, the field methods employed there, and the basic chimp-observer relationships follows, then a who’s who of chimpanzees from the one chimpanzee...
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