Gombe Stream National Park is a small park on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania, known worldwide as the site of the longest-running study of wild chimpanzees. The primatologist Jane Goodall began her work there with the Kasakela chimpanzees at the beginning of the 1960s, and she made discoveries that changed ideas about our closest relatives, including that chimpanzees make and use tools and hunt animals. The park, one of Tanzania's smallest, consists of steep forested valleys running down to the lake, and also protects other primates, such as red colobus and baboons. It is reached only by boat, and the research centre there continues to monitor the chimpanzee community across generations.
Before and after
- 1968Founding of European Olympic Committees
- from 1968 to 1982Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
- 1968Founding of FK Sūduva
- 1968Construction of São Paulo Museum of Art
- 1968Establishment of Gombe National Park
- 22 January 1968Launch of Apollo 5
- 30 January 1968Birth of Felipe VI of Spain
- from 30 January 1968 to 23 September 1968Tet Offensive
- 11 February 1968Construction of Madison Square Garden
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