Dramatis Personae

(November 1967 to July 1969)

MANAGEMENT AND STAFF

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

CHIMPANZEE RESEARCHERS

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

OTHER RESEARCHERS

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

TANZANIAN PARKS RANGER

FERDINAND UMPONO, first parks ranger to live at the new tourist station in Nyasanga Valley

THE FISHERMEN

IDDI MATATA, unofficial spokesman for the dagaa fishermen

ALPHONSE, fisherman from the south who used a drift net (makira)

VISITING DISTINGUISHED SCIENTISTS

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

CHIMPANZEES

High-Ranking Adult Males

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

The Flo Family

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

Other Researchers’ Favorites

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

Others

, 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)