{"id":5646,"date":"2018-05-21T14:09:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vimatsafaris.com\/?page_id=5646"},"modified":"2018-05-30T06:50:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T06:50:24","slug":"gombe-national-park","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vimatsafaris.com\/gombe-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Gombe National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gombe Stream National Park, located on the western border of Tanzania and the Congo, is most famous for Jane Goodall, the resident primatologist who spent many years in its forests studying the behaviour of the endangered chimpanzees
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The Thrilling Gombe National Park<\/p><\/div>
\nZOO-NAISSANCESituated on the wild shores of Lake Tanganyika, Gombe Stream is an untamed place of lush forests and clear lake views. Hiking and swimming are also popular activities here, once the day\u2019s expedition to see the chimpanzees is over.
\nGombe Stream\u2019s main attraction is obviously the chimpanzee families that live protected in the park\u2019s boundaries. Guided walks are available that take visitors deep into the forest to observe and sit with the extraordinary primates for an entire morning \u2014 an incredible experience and one that is the highlight of many visitors\u2019 trips to Africa. Besides chimpanzee viewing, many other species of primates live in Gombe Stream\u2019s tropical forests. Vervet and colobus monkeys, baboons, forest pigs and small antelopes inhabit the dense forest, in addition to a wide variety of tropical birdlife.
\nAn excited whoop erupts from deep in the forest, boosted immediately by a dozen other voices, rising in volume and tempo and pitch to a frenzied shrieking crescendo. It is the famous \u2018pant-hoot\u2019 call: a bonding ritual that allows the participants to identify each other through their individual vocal stylizations. To the human listener, walking through the ancient forests of Gombe Stream becomes a spine-chilling outburst which is also an indicator of imminent visual contact with man\u2019s closest genetic relative: the chimpanzee.<\/p>\n

Gombe is the smallest of all the Tanzania\u2019s national parks: a fragile strip of chimpanzee habitat straddling the steep slopes and river valleys that hem in the sandy northern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Its chimpanzees \u2013 habituated to human visitors \u2013 were made famous by the pioneering work of Jane Goodall, whom in 1960 founded a behavioural research program that now stands as the longest-running study of its kind in the world. The matriarch Fifi, the last surviving member of the original community \u2013 that was only three-years old when Goodall first set foot in Gombe \u2013 is still regularly seen by visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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