![]() ![]() These discoveries helped her obtain funding to continue her study. ![]() The chimps gradually became accustomed to Goodall’s presence, and she made significant observations of their displays of affection, greeting calls, territorial gestures, and social dynamics-as well as unexpected observations of chimps eating a bush piglet and using grass stems as tools to fish termites from their nests. Finding the chimps-and observing them without spooking them-was difficult, and Goodall and her mother contracted malaria and were bedridden for two weeks. Chapter 3, “First Observations,” describes the study’s early challenges and progress. After months of preparation, Goodall (with her mother, Vanne Goodall) began research in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park. ![]() Leakey then offered her the opportunity to conduct a study on chimps in the wild. Goodall was thrilled to accept the position of assistant secretary there and accompanied Leakey on paleontological digs in the Olduvai Gorge. ![]() Friends in Kenya introduced her to British anthropologist and paleontologist Louis Leakey, the curator at the National Museum of Natural History in Nairobi. She yearned to see African wildlife and worked as a secretary in the UK to save money for a trip. This study guide refers to the Kindle edition of the book.Ĭhapters 1 and 2, “Beginnings” and “Early Days,” explain how Goodall first traveled to East Africa in her early twenties. ![]()
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