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Unit 11-Reading 2-Life

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  • What does she do in her spare time?
    She spends part of every year watching the chimpanzees.
  • When did scientists and academics start reading about her work?
    After she published articles about her findings in journals such as National Geographic magazine.
  • What did she discover about chimpanzees?
    Chimpanzees ate meat, they used tools to get food and they made tools.
  • How qualified was she for this kind of work?
    She had no scientific qualifications.
  • Has Jane retired?
    No, she hasn't.
  • How soon after she arrived did she try to find her first chimpanzee?
    straight away
  • Did all the foreigners, including Jane, leave the region?
    No, many foreigners left, but Jane stayed.
  • Who was Jane travelling with when she first arrived in Gombe?
    her mother
  • Why were there only about a hundred chimpanzees living in Gombe by the end of the eighties?
    Because the human population in the region was increasing, which caused deforestation.
  • Why did Gombe become a dangerous place?
    Because it was on the border of four different countries and there was fighting there.
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