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Dr. Jane’s Bio

From a very young age, Dr. Jane loved animals and wanted to read every book she could about them. When Dr. Jane grew up, her love of animals grew and she knew she wanted to go to Africa to continue her learning.

An opportunity to visit a family friend in Kenya arose, and she worked very hard as a waitress and a secretary to earn enough money to go on the trip.

There she met Dr. Louis Leakey, a famous paleontologist and anthropologist who studied human natural history.

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Dr. Leakey hired Dr. Jane and eventually decided that Dr. Jane should study chimpanzees in what is now Gombe National Park in the country of Tanzania.

As a woman, Dr. Jane couldn’t go study the chimpanzees by herself, so in 1960, Dr.

Jane’s mother accompanied her on the trip. Each day, Dr. Jane hiked out to try to find the chimpanzees and observe their behavior. No one had studied them in the wild this way before. She documented many behaviors among the chimpanzees including eating,