CARDBOARD/VIEWER TOUR JANE'S HOME MEET CHIMPANZEES GOMBE ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH CENTER EXPLORE YOUR "STREET"
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TAKE A TOUR OF WHERE DR. JANE LIVES WHEN SHE'S AT GOMBE |
CLICK HERE TO TOUR DR. JANE'S GOMBE HOME
Did you know that when Dr. Jane first came to Gombe National Park to observe chimpanzees, her mother, Vanne, was with her? At first, the chimpanzees fled whenever they saw Jane. But she persisted, watching from a distance with binoculars, and gradually the chimpanzees allowed her closer. One day in November 1960 she saw chimpanzees David Greybeard and Goliath strip leaves off twigs to make tools for fishing termites out of a termite mound. Up until this time, scientists thought humans were the only species to make tools, but here was evidence to the contrary! One key to success for Dr. Jane while she was at Gombe was her ability to be a keen observer. Although most people will not have the opportunity to observe wild chimpanzees, students need to be sharp observers because careful observations are the foundation of scientific inquiry - what we observe determines the questions we ask. |
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MEET SOME OF THE GOMBE CHIMPANZEES |
Over 100 chimpanzees live in Gombe, in three separate social groups or communities. Click here to meet some of the Gombe chimpanzees. | |
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Thanks to National Geographic and other television specials about Jane, Jane’s books about the Gombe chimpanzees, and countless writings about her life and work, Gombe’s chimpanzees are known the world over. The most familiar to the public are the “F” family, a family line headed by the old matriarch Flo, who upon her death was the subject of an obituary in the Sunday Times. In more recent years the world has come to know a pair who may be unique in the natural world – the chimpanzee twins Golden and Glitter. Twin chimpanzees generally don’t survive in the wild, but Golden & Glitter had the advantage of a doting older sister, Gaia, who helped her mother Gremlin raise the two girls. |
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THE GOMBE ECOSYSTEM |
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Chimpanzees are currently found in 21 African countries—from the west coast of the continent to as far east as western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania. Gombe is the smallest national park in Tanzania, but it hosts a wide array of wildlife such as: olive baboons, red-tailed moneys, vervet monkeys, over 200 bird species, bushpigs and the occasional hippopotamus and leopard. Running along the shores of Lake Tanganyika the park has three main habitat types: grassland, alpine bamboo and tropical rainforest. Use Google Street View to tour an upper ridge grassland with Miombo Woodlands within the park. |
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"VISIT" THE GOMBE STREAM RESEARCH CENTER |
"Visit" the Gombe Stream Research Center! |
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Now you can tour the Peak and see the amazing views of Gombe and |
EXPLORE YOUR "STREET" |
Gombe National Park might be far away, but you can use Google Street View to explore your community. When you move on to Step 2: Map It, the first activity is to observe the community around you, but what if you can’t get outside to walk around? Street View can be a great way to bring the outside in!
And if you and your learners are able to go outside discuss the comparisons between what see in reality versus on the screen. |
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