Chimpanzee Mother and Babies
IHO Founding Director Donald Johanson visited the Jane Goodall Institute in Gombe, Tanzania, and was lucky to come upon this little band of mother chimpanzees with their babies. Johanson is the paleoanthropologist who discovered the famous "Lucy" fossil in Hadar, Ethiopia in 1974. He has traveled all over the world, but you can hear the surprise and wonder in his voice when he sees this group of animals.
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Paleoanthropologist: a scientist that specializes in the study of human evolution.
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