JANE VAN LAWICK-GOODALL, British primatologist and codirector of the research center
HUGO VAN LAWICK, Dutch photographer and codirector of the center
NICOLAS PICKFORD, Kenyan-British camp manager from June 1968
MARGARET PICKFORD, South African bookkeeper, June 1968 to April 1969
RASHIDI KIKWALE, the mzee (honored elder) and head of staff
HILALI MATAMA, hired in 1968 as first field assistant
Other field staff hired by the summer of 1969: Eslom Mpongo, Hamisi Mkono, Jumanne Mkukwe, and Yusufu Mvruganyi
DOMINIC BANDORA, cook
SADIKI RUKUMATA, assistant cook
MPOFU, carpenter and boatman
RUTH DAVIS, American long-term volunteer, arrived in May 1968, died on July 12, 1969
CAROLE GALE, American long-term volunteer from the Friends World Institute in Nairobi, arrived in November 1967
GEZA TELEKI, American graduate student from Pennsylvania State University, February 1968 to March 1969
PATRICK MCGINNIS, senior researcher; on temporary leave from Gombe, January 1969 to early July 1969
PATRICIA MOEHLMAN, senior researcher, finished near the end of November 1967
ALICE SOREM, senior researcher, finished in November 1968
LORETTA BALDWIN, American long-term volunteer, arrived in March 1969
CATHERINE CLARK, American long-term volunteer, arrived in November 1968
TIM RANSOM, American graduate student and baboon researcher, finished in May 1969
BONNIE RANSOM, American graduate student and baboon researcher, arrived in January 1968, left in December 1968
TIMOTHY CLUTTON-BROCK, British graduate student and red colobus monkey researcher, arrived in January 1969
MICHAEL SIMPSON, British senior scientist, arrived in January 1969
FERDINAND UMPONO, first parks ranger to live at the new tourist station in Nyasanga Valley
IDDI MATATA, unofficial spokesman for the dagaa fishermen
ALPHONSE, fisherman from the south who used a drift net (makira)
DAVID HAMBURG, psychiatry professor at Stanford University
ROBERT HINDE, ethologist and Jane’s former advisor from Cambridge University
PHYLLIS JAY, primatologist and anthropologist from the University of California, Berkeley
CHARLIE, Hugh’s predictable ally and probably his younger brother, bold and powerfully built
HUGH, probably Charlie’s older brother; Ruth’s favorite
HUMPHREY, very big and aggressive, known for his attacks against chimp females; he also seemed to dislike human females
MIKE, a comparatively benign alpha who acquired his top status in 1964 through the creative use of stolen kerosene tins
FLO, the old matriarch: aggressive, high-ranking, and reproductively successful
FABEN, Flo’s teenage son and Figan’s older brother, crippled by polio in the 1966 epidemic; one of Carole’s favorites
FIGAN, Flo’s teenage son and Faben’s ambitious younger brother; another of Carole’s favorites
FIFI, Flo’s preadolescent daughter
FLINT, Flo’s juvenile son
FLAME, Flo’s infant, born in August 1968, disappeared (apparently died) in January 1969
DAVID GREYBEARD, Jane Goodall’s early favorite, disappeared during a epidemic of respiratory infections in the late spring of 1968
LEAKEY, an older, middle-ranking male, who could have been a brother to Worzle; Leakey was also Geza’s “friend” and introduced him to termite fishing
DÉ, young adult male
EVERED, elder son of Olly, ambitious but lacking close allies
GOBLIN, born to Melissa in 1964
GODI, adolescent male
GOLIATH, powerful male and former alpha past his prime
MELISSA, high-ranking female
OLLY, shy, timid female, died in 1969
PALLAS, adult female
PEPE, male crippled by polio, died in 1968
POOCH, young female with a serious injury, died in 1968
RIX, adult male probably killed in a fall from a tree, November 1968
SNIFF, young adult male
WILLY-WALLY, young adult male.
WORZLE, low-ranking older adult male marked by humanoid eyes (white sclera)