Chapter 5 Summary and Analysis

It would be a year before Goodall could see the chimps in Tanzania. She went back to England and got a job in the television film library at the London Zoo. She spent most of her time learning about chimps though she found almost all of the information was learned in labs; almost no one had observed them. Eventually Leakey secured the money and the governmental position to come back to Africa. Due to Tanzanian and British regulations, Goodall required a companion so she chose her mother to stay with her for several months. However, just as they arrived some skirmishes broke out near the chimpanzees and they had to delay their trip; Leakey sent Goodall and her mother to Lolue Island to observe vervet monkeys until the skirmishes died down. Goodall enjoyed herself and got to know the monkeys, though...