Doolittle, 1957 Goes to Africa. . Web. . Web. F ifty years ago, a slender young Englishwoman was walking through a rainforest reserve at Gombe, in Tanzania, when she came across a dark figure hunched over a termite. Jane Goodall's first sightings of free-ranging chimpanzees in Tanzania came to mind. Web. . In fact, Dr. Jim Naughten, "Gorillas". Jane Goodall, the renowned primate expert best known for living among and studying chimpanzees in Tanzania, delivered a broadside against a whole range of threats to both wild animals and. . The name "pygmy" was given by the German zoologist Ernst Schwarz in 1929, who classified the species on the basis of a previously mislabeled bonobo cranium, noting its diminutive size compared to chimpanzee skulls.