After obtaining the approval of his co-researcher and wife, noted British paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, Louis sent Goodall to Olduvai Gorge, where he confessed his plans.
Instead, he insisted Goodall could work for him as a secretary. Leakey was looking for a chimpanzee researcher but he kept the idea to himself for a time. From there, she obtained work as a secretary, but acting on her friend's advice she telephoned Louis Leakey with no other thought than to make an appointment to discuss animals. Goodall had always been passionate about animals and Africa, which brought her to the farm of a friend in the Kenya highlands in 1957. Jane Goodall began her first field study of chimpanzee culture in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. A fourth researcher, Toni Jackman, had been selected to study bonobos in Africa, but the necessary financing and permits had not yet been secured before Leakey's death. It later became the Institute of Primate Research of the National Museums of Kenya, located in Nairobi.Īt the time of Leakey's death in 1972, Goodall and Dian Fossey had progressed significantly in their long-term field research in Africa, while Birutė Galdikas was just getting underway with her field studies in Indonesia. After Kenya achieved independence the center became the National Primate Research Center. With donations from sources including the National Geographic Society and the Wilkie Foundation, the Tigoni Research Center helped secure funding for all three of the women Leakey dubbed the "Trimates". To fund Goodall's research at the Gombe Stream Preserve, Leakey created the Tigoni Primate Research Center in 1958. Leakey was considering taking the job himself when Jane Goodall providentially brought herself to his attention. In 1956, he sent his secretary, Rosalie Osborn, to Mount Muhabura in Uganda to "help habituate" gorillas, but she returned to England after four months. He had been trying to find observers since 1946. He saw similarities between this environment and the habitat of the chimpanzees and gorillas. Louis Leakey's interest in primate ethology stemmed from his attempts to recreate the environment in which the primate, Proconsul, lived in the Rusinga Island region.
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