In 1968, few persons had ever been to Africa’s Gombe Stream chimpanzee reserve. And almost no one, except Jane Goodall, had ever tried to observe and interact with wild chimpanzees. Imagine my surprise when my quiet cousin, Ruth Davis, and her fiancé, Geza Teleki, now both deceased, signed on to become Jane’s research assistants.
Gombe Stream is in Tanzania, on the eastern edge of Lake Tanganyika, where it is part of an unusual geological formation called the East African Rift. The Rift is a steep, rocky cliff punctuated by a series of streams and valleys and is considered one of the richest and wildest forests on earth.
It was in this remote location that Jane, soon to be Dr. Goodall, discovered that
