Based on surveys of Gombe staff, the team profiled 24 Gombe chimpanzees’ personalities along 10 different behavioral traits, such as belligerence and playfulness.
In 1973, researcher Peter Buirski visited Gombe with Goodall’s blessing to continue some of the personality research. Her dream to study our closest relatives began in 1960 in Gombe Park, Tanzania, and she continues her work to save them today. Jane Goodall has taught the world more about chimpanzees than anyone else in the world. Goodall’s field observations of Gombe’s chimpanzees, supported by the National Geographic Society, showed that chimpanzees not only eat meat but also use tools, make tools, and display unique personalities. His personality ratings for 128 chimpanzees-many of whom Goodall herself studied in the 1960s and 1970s- were published October 24 in the journal Scientific Data. You have to go out to the wild.” ( See the groundbreaking documentary JANE, the untold story of Jane Goodall’s life and work.) “Studying personalities in zoos has its advantages, but if you want to ask questions about something like personality is related to reproductive success… you can’t address these questions in captive samples. “It’s the most famous groups of chimpanzees in the world, and I thought this was a terrific opportunity,” says study leader Alexander Weiss, a psychologist at the University of Edinburgh. The new study provides fresh insight, suggesting that, like humans, chimpanzee personalities are stable over time-a discovery that could help scientists test ideas for how our own temperament evolved. Now, for the first time in decades, behavioral scientists have revisited some of Goodall's original observations of the animals' personalities. The wild chimpanzees at Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park are at the heart of Jane Goodall’s groundbreaking research. Watch Jane, an intimate portrait of Jane Goodall's chimpanzee research, on March 12 at 8 p.m.
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