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High-ranking Flo was an attentive, playful mother. She lived an estimated 53 years, one of the longest lives recorded at Gombe.

The sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa Rise to any challenge.

Unfortunately, some of the news coming out of Gombe is distressing.

Gremlin, one of my longtime favorites, is currently raising the third set of twins in the record books at Gombe.

As we watch their numbers dwindle and their forests fall, their legacy becomes as clear as a Gombe stream: As they go, so, one day, may we.

In 1971 she published In the Shadow of Man, her account of the early Gombe studies and adventures, which became a best seller.

There I hired the government launch to take us on the last stage of the journey-the 16 miles up the lake to the Gombe chimpanzee reserve.

David Greybeard (right), who once ate about 50 bananas in a sitting, was the first Gombe chimp to lose his fear of human contact.

Around the same time, she began hosting students and graduate researchers to help with chimp-data collection and other research at Gombe.

It is now known that chimps lack immunity to some human diseases, so Gombe researchers must keep at least 25 feet away.

In 1968 the little game reserve underwent its own graduation, becoming Tanzania's Gombe National Park.

Soon thereafter, she returned to Tanzania to continue research and to establish the Gombe Stream Research Centre.

Today, Goodall is a gracefully aged replica of the young woman who first set foot at Gombe five decades ago.

It's been more than 40 years since I first set foot on the sandy beach of what is now Tanzania's Gombe National Park.

Soon after, she returned to Tanzania to continue research and to establish the Gombe Stream Research Centre.

We therefore have much to commemorate 50 years after Goodall began her strolls through Gombe.

For instance, there's a small population of chimps in a patch of forest called Kwitanga, about ten miles east of Gombe.

Three years later, the couple had a son, Hugo, who was raised at Gombe where he known simply as "Grub" .

When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest.

Around this time, Goodall noted a split was taking place among Gombe's chimpanzees.

In 1960 a spirited animal lover with no scientific training set up camp in Tanganyika's Gombe Stream Game Reserve to observe chimpanzees.

When she arrived at Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest.

A Gombe chimpanzee and alpha male named Frodo is captured close-up at Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.

Even after all these years, the vivid Gombe characters continue to surprise and delight us.

It's important to remember that the meaning of Gombe, after half a century, is bigger than Jane Goodall's life and work.

Now cultivated fields surround the mere 30 square miles of Gombe National Park.

For instance: Who are the fathers at Gombe?

Gombe was once home to about 150 chimpanzees in three communities.

They said that was the safest place for us and wouldn't let us go to Gombe for several weeks.

Jane has been doing research at Gombe for 38 years now.

I began my work in Africa 50 years ago, studying the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Tanzania.

Q. You don't get to Gombe very often now.

From there, I went to Gombe and spent two years learning more about Islam. . . and how to interpret the Qur'an.

Such a large catch is rare for Gombe's chimpanzees, which usually target small monkeys, Ruoso said. (See more photos of Gombe chimps. )

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