About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Apes from language studies, Famous chimpanzees, Famous gorillas, Famous orangutans, Koko, Ham the Chimp, Nim Chimpsky, Kasakela Chimpanzee Community, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, Travis, Washoe, Great ape language, Cheeta, List of apes, Jiggs, Gargantua, Oliver, Kanzi, Snowflake, Bobo, Pogo, Lucy Temerlin, J. Fred Muggs, Jambo, Titus, Bokito, Congo, Charles the Gorilla, Ah Meng, Panzee and Panbanisha, Colo, Max, Guy the Gorilla, Babec, Enos, Binti Jua, Bedtime for Bonzo, Jenny, Nonja, Ken Allen, Lana, Willie B., Nyota, Massa, Loulis, Sarah, Sultan, Sam, Julius, Gregoire, Santino, Bonnie, Pankun, Chantek, Ai, Jumoke, Viki, Tonda, Toto, Manis, Mitumba Chimpanzee Community, Ayumu, Azy, Phoebe B. Beebe. Excerpt: The Kasakela chimpanzee community is an inhabited community of wild Eastern chimpanzees that lives in Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. The community was the subject of Dr. Jane Goodall's pioneering study that began in 1960, and studies have continued ever since. As a result, the community has been instrumental in the study of chimpanzees, and has been popularized in several books and documentaries. The community's popularity was enhanced by Dr. Goodall's practice of giving names to the chimpanzees she was observing, in contrast to the typical scientific practice of identifying the subjects by number. Dr. Goodall generally used a naming convention in which infants were given names starting with the same letter as their mother, allowing the recognition of matrilineal lines. One of the most important discoveries that was learned by observing the Kasakela chimpanzee community was the use of tools. On November 4, 1960, Dr. Goodall observed a chimpanzee that she had named David Greybeard using a grass stalk as a tool to extract termites from a termite hill. Later, she observed David Greybeard and ...
