
"During the early years at Gombe, Jane married and in 1967, gave
birth to her son, named Hugo after his father."
Dr. Jordan explains his own connections to Goodall, also
those of the six juniors from various colleges in the audience who,
as Prince Edward County High School seniors along with their teachers,
visited Jane Goodall at Gombe Stream Research Centre in 1995. To complete
the circle, Jordan's daughter Anna gives to Dr. Jane a stone picked
up from Lake Tanganyika during that trip.
"Let us now welcome to the Longwood community of
scholars Dr. Jane Goodall."
She goes through her slides without notes, relying on
sincerity, humor and having more knowledge of her subject than anyone
else on the planet.
She shows slides of the wild chimpanzees, of Freud and
Frodo and Fifi. She tells how they kiss when they greet one another,
how mothers protect and care for their young, how even an older brother
will sometimes care for and protect a sibling or even another infant.
How they play and how they attempt to dominate and outrank others
in their group. About their eating habits, tool-making, and mating.
But she also shows captive chimps; killed mothers and
captured babies to be sold for pets. She describes the painful isolation
of chimps confined in small cages and used for medical research. The
young chimp Riki who, taken from her mother, had adopted the "only
responsible adult to love and care for her that she could find"
the dog Omby. When Omby went scrounging for food, Riki rode
along on her back.
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