While in Kenya, in an effort to realize her dream of studying wild animals, she contacted Dr. Louis Leakey, a renowned paleontologist and anthropologist. She made an appointment to meet him and further surprised Dr. Leakey by answering many of his questions about Africa and it's wildlife. It was when Dr. Leakey hired her as his assistant when Jane's life really began. Along with Dr. Leakey and his wife, Jane traveled to Olduvai Gorge on a fossil-hunting expedition. "I always remember the first time I held in my hand the bone of a creature that had walked the eart

A day in the life of Jane Goodall, was primarily a day in the life of a chimpanzee. She got up at 6:45 AM every morning of everyday she was in Gombe National Park, having a piece of bread and a cup of coffee for breakfast every morning. From her camp site on the beach, she could get to the chimps wherever they were. Her favorite day was spent following a mother and her family until evening. "The most wonderful thing about fieldwork, whether with chimps or baboons or any other wildlife," said Jane," is waking up and asking yourself, what am I going to see today?" (www.cbs.umn). She doesn't bother with lunch when she's out observing because she eats the wild fruit that chimps eat because, according to Jane, " they're quite tasty when they're ripe." (www.cbs.umn) Around 3:00 PM, Jane always felt weary because she spent a lot of the day on her stomach, crawling, with vines catching in her hair. At dusk, the chimps nest. The birds sing, and it's quiet when the babies' and their mothers' go to sleep. That's when she'd make her way home. "The Gombe evening was magical," Jane remembered, thinking of when she'd jump in Lake Tanganyika where the clear, fresh water made all of her tiredness go away, (www.pbs.org). "It was paradise," Jane recalled after reflecting about her time in Gombe, (www.pbs.org). Her one luxury was music; Beethoven, Mahler, Sibelius and so on. She listened to music to help her relax during the more stressful times of her journey. Now, Jane hasn't stayed anywhere longer than three weeks since 1986. On her last USA lecture tour she rarely spent two nights in one place. There are lectures, new people to meet, receptions and press conferences she has to get accomplished. A typical non- African day for her is spent in airplanes, lobbying like crazy, writing letters and sorting slides. She supposes that she's trying to do too many thing at once, but after long, hard days she forgets about her needs and thinks about how many chimps are in laboratories and in tiny prisons. After all, that's why she set up the Jane Goodall Institution for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation, a non-profit organization with Genevieve, Princess di San Faustino in 1977.

In the beginning, studying the chimpanzees of Gombe was not easy for Jane. It appeared that the primates behavior would remain forever mysterious. The animals fled from her in fear; it took months for her to get close to them. With determination, she searched the forest everyday, deliberately trying n

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