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Primatologist Jane Goodall was born #OTD in 1934. Her study of chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania, which began in 1960, became the longest running continuous study of animals in the wild.

Image: Michael Neugebauer / Carnegie Science Center
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Usually my #OTD posts are connected to physics, math, or astro. But there’s a story about Jane Goodall that I love, and wanted to share. Maybe you've heard it before.
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When Jane was 4 or 5, she spent time on a family member's farm. She had a few chores, which included collecting the eggs. One day she vanished. Her mom looked all over, and after five hours finally called the police. But before they showed up, Jane appeared out of nowhere.
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Jane revealed that she had been in the henhouse the whole time.

"I had always wondered where on a hen was an opening big enough for an egg to come out,” she explained. So she hid in the back, silent and still, and just watched for hours until her question was answered.
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