Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe is Jane Goodall’s reflective memoir and scientific account of her decades-long field research and close relationships with wild chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
memoir
non-fiction book
scientific popularization
author Jane Goodall
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
follows In the Shadow of Man
genre memoir
primatology literature
science writing
hasTheme empathy toward nonhuman animals
ethical responsibility toward wildlife
personal growth through fieldwork
relationship between humans and animals
scientific discovery
includesTopic chimpanzee family bonds
chimpanzee warfare
conservation of chimpanzees
impact of research on local environment
methodology of long-term field observation
tool use in chimpanzees
literaryForm first-person narrative
mainFocus Jane Goodall’s long-term research on wild chimpanzees
ethical issues in animal research
human–chimpanzee similarities
individual chimpanzee life histories
social behavior of chimpanzees
narrativePerspective autobiographical
notableChimpanzeeSubjects David Greybeard
Fifi
Flo
Frodo
originalLanguage English
publicationYear 1990
settingCountry Tanzania
settingLocation Gombe Stream Research Centre
surface form: Gombe Stream National Park
subject Gombe Stream Research Centre
surface form: Gombe Stream National Park

animal behavior
chimpanzees
field research
primatology
targetAudience general readers
readers interested in animal behavior
students of primatology
timeSpanCovered approximately thirty years

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Jane Goodall notableWork Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe