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===Field study=== [[File:Gombe Stream NP Fuetterungsstation.jpg|right|thumb|Feeding station at Gombe, where [[Jane Goodall]] used to feed and observe the chimpanzees]] [[Jane Goodall]] undertook the first long-term field study of the chimpanzee, begun in Tanzania at [[Gombe Stream National Park]] in 1960.<ref name="nat.geo.04.03.">{{cite magazine |title=Jane in the forest again |url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature5/fulltext.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210041539/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature5/fulltext.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 December 2007 |magazine=National Geographic |date=April 2003 |access-date=17 November 2014}}</ref> Other long-term studies begun in the 1960s include [[Adriaan Kortlandt]]'s in the eastern [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] and [[Toshisada Nishida]]'s in [[Mahale Mountains National Park]] in Tanzania.<ref>{{cite book |last=Nishida |first=T. |year=2012 |title=Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore: Natural History and Culture at Mahale |location=Cambridge, UK |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Cohen |first=J. E. |title=Going bananas |publisher=American Scholar |date=Winter 1993 |pages=154β157}}</ref> Current understanding of the species' typical behaviours and social organisation has been formed largely from Goodall's ongoing 60-year Gombe research study.<ref name="Power.Anthropologist">{{cite journal |last=Power |first=M. |title=Divergence population genetics of chimpanzees |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=95 |date=December 1993 |pages=1010β11 |issue=4 |doi=10.1525/aa.1993.95.4.02a00180}}</ref><ref name=long>{{cite book |title=Long-term Field Studies of Primates |url=https://archive.org/details/longtermfieldstu00kapp|url-access=limited |editor1=Kappeler, P. M. |editor2=Watts, D. P. |chapter=Long-term studies of the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania |author=Wilson, M. L. |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/longtermfieldstu00kapp/page/n377 |pages=357β384 |publisher=Springer |year=2012 |isbn=9783642225130}}</ref><ref name="Wilson et al. (2020)">{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=M. L. |display-authors=etal |title=Research and conservation in the greater Gombe ecosystem: challenges and opportunities |journal=Biological Conservation |date=2020 |volume=252 |page=108853 |doi=10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108853 |pmid=33343005 |pmc=7743041|bibcode=2020BCons.25208853W }}</ref>
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