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Arrival
When Jane Goodall was 26 years old, she arrived in what is now Tanzania to observe the chimps and their way of like with no previous experience. -
Chimpanzees eat meat
Jane Goodall discovered that Chimpanzees hunt and eat meat. Before this discovery, people had assumed chimps were vegetarians. The way chimpanzees hunted was that a group of them would attack at the same time. She observed them doing thins to a red colobus monkey that had climbed into a tree -
Chimpanzees Make and Use Tools
Jane discovered that chimps make and use tools by observing ttwo chimps making tools to extract termites from their mounds. -
Cambridge University
Jane Goodall was one of the few people accepted to receive and PhD in Cambridge University without a degree, but her discoveries about Chimpanzees were so important the University made a special program for her. -
Life Among the Wild Chimpanzees
National Geographic published their first article about Jane Goodall and her research about chimps called Life Among the Wild Chimpanzees. -
Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
National Geographic creates a film about Jane and her chimps called Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees and releases it, putting Jane and her chimps lives into the spotlight. -
Jane earns her PhD
Dr. Jane Goodall earns her PhD in ethology, and National Geographic funds the construction of aluminium buildings at Gombe. -
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4 year war
Two enemy chimpanzee groups in Gombe (the Kahama splinter group and the main Kasakela group) start a war that lasts for four years. Many discoveries were made by Jane Goodall during this conflict. -
Cannibalism
Jane first observes cannibalism among the Gombe chimpanzees. She observes a mother and her offspring stealing and killing babies in their own community. -
Jane Goodal Institute founded
Dr. Jane Goodall creates her own institute in order to continue her research on chimpanzees and help protect chimps, and educate people about them. -
Jane Becomes an Activist
Dr. Jane Goodall attends her first conference in Chicago which was about her work, The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior. She is shocked to hear about how threatened the species is and she knows she must leave Gombe and try to help stop the extinction of the chimpanzees. -
Founding of Roots & Shoots Program
Jane and 16 Tanzanian students created the Roots and Shoots program which was designed to educate and help he youth solve the world's big problems. -
Tchimpounga Sanctuary
The Jane Goodall Institute founded the Tchimpounga Sanctuary so rehabilitate orphan chimpanzees that were taken by illegal pet traders. It now cares for over 150 chimpanzees. -
United Nations Messenger of Peace
UN secretary general Kofi Annan appointed Jane to become the United Nations Messenger of Peace -
50th Anniversary
Dr. Jane Goodall celebrates the 50th anniversary of the date she first arrived in Gombe which is now called Gombe Stream National Park.