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Dr. Jane, page 3

"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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