Gombe Field Research
The site of Dr. Jane Goodall’s groundbreaking research, Tanzania’s Gombe National Park has changed our understanding of animals and altered our perception of what it means to be human. Since 1960, Goodall and her peers have observed generations of the area’s chimpanzees. The behaviors they recorded—chimpanzees making and using tools, hunting prey and even waging warfare—exceeded the boundaries of what was previously thought possible, capturing worldwide attention and galvanizing global conservation efforts.
Today, Lincoln Park Zoo is proud to partner with the Jane Goodall Institute on a number of research projects in Gombe National Park. Zoo scientists take advantage of the resources that have been established over nearly half a century to study chimpanzee health, chimpanzee play and the mother-infant relationship in the species. The answers our scientists find through this partnership will be integral to learning more about chimpanzees and, ultimately, ourselves.
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Hello From Gombe!
Though it’s a bit belated, I wanted to introduce myself here on the Conservation Field Diaries. After graduating college this past June, I was awarded a U.S. Student Fulbright grant for a proposal to advance chimpanzee health-monitoring measures. I’ll be doing a number of things here at Gombe but my primary project studies the interaction of health and stress in wild chimpanzees. Specifically, I’ll be collecting fecal samples to extracting hormone measures.
Read more »Posted on 15 March 2010 | 4:35 pm
Chimpanzee Central
Graduate researcher Matt Heintz provides highlights from his six months studying chimpanzee play in Gombe National Park. View the slideshow!
Posted on 2 February 2010 | 4:22 pm
A Wonderful Morning with the Chimpanzees
The rest of the Lincoln Park Zoo crew arrived a couple days ago, including Dominic Travis, D.V.M., Rachel Santymire, Ph.D., Felix Lankester, D.V.M., and Colleen O’Donnell. We spent the entire day meeting with our partners at the Jane Goodall Institute’s Gombe Stream Research Centre to review progress on various health, endocrine and training initiatives.
Read more »Posted on 21 December 2009 | 11:13 am
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