Note: these archive images were taken prior to current best practice guidelines regarding proximity to great apes and mitigation of disease transmission.
DAME JANE GOODALL & THE CHIMPS OF GOMBE
Dame Jane Goodall, one of the world’s foremost chimpanzee experts, has an uncanny way with chimpanzees. Individuals that she has never met before seem to instantly recognise her as a kindred spirit. Here, 7-year-old “Dosi”, a rescued orphan chimp, reaches through a chain-link fence to embrace Jane and greet her with a kiss at the 120ha (300 acre) Kitwe Point Sanctuary, a beautiful, wooded peninsula, three miles south of Kigoma on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
Above - ‘Dr Jane’, entrances a local Roots and Shoots school group by demonstrating the unmistakable sound of a chimpanzee ‘pant hoot’.
Right - Dame Jane Goodall, enjoys some quiet, ‘staring’ time at a waterfall at Kakombe Valley in Gombe Stream National Park.
Dame Jane Goodall in 1997, observing Fanni and her one-year-old son, Fudge, two of the famous ‘F’ family chimps. At age 20, Fudge overthrew his uncle, Ferdinand, to become alpha male.
Calm, dignified and popular with researchers and chimpanzees alike, Freud was alpha male at Gombe from 1993-1997, until he became ill with sarcoptic mange and was overthrown by his younger brother, Frodo.
Ferdinand, at 5-years-of-age, one of the famous ‘F’ family chimpanzee dynasty of Gombe Stream National Park, being groomed. He was alpha male from 2008 until 2016, when deposed by his nephew, Fudge.
Frodo in his prime, at 51 kg the largest, most formidable and notorious of the ‘F’ family dynasty’s alpha males.
Frodo, Gombe’s alpha male from 1997 to 2002, feasting on Mbula Fruit.
Fanni with her son Fudge, later to become alpha male, two of the powerful ‘F’ family chimpanzee dynasty of Gombe Stream National Park.
One-year-old, Fudge, the son of Fanni, of the famous ‘F’ family chimpanzee dynasty of Gombe Stream National Park. Nineteen years later he overthrew his uncle, Ferdinand, to become the community’s alpha male.
A large male chimpanzee displays his authority. Photographed on “Jane's Peak" where Goodall regularly slept overnight during her early days of observation and research at Gombe.
Faustino, one of the famous ‘F’ family chimpanzee dynasty of Gombe Stream National Park, eating mchaichai berries.
In a frenzy, Freud, Frodo and Fifi, members of Kasekela’s dominant ‘F’ family, dismember a Red Colobus monkey they have just caught and killed.
Alpha ‘F’ family females, (L-R) Fifi, with daughter Fanni and one-year-old son Fudge, eat a freshly killed Colobus monkey. A lower ranking chimpanzee waits on the sidelines hoping to beg leftovers.
Skosha, with her uncannily human eyes and thoughtful gaze, was one of the most striking chimps in the Kasakela community but largely scorned by much of her group, possibly because she was infertile.
Note: these archive images were taken prior to current best practice guidelines regarding proximity to great apes and mitigation of disease transmission.