Which university was announced in 2011 as the new home of Goodall's archives?

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Duke University was announced in 2011 as the new home of Jane Goodall’s archives.

The collection contains roughly five decades of observations from the chimpanzee research begun at Gombe in Tanzania. It includes handwritten field notes, check-sheets, maps, photographs, video and audio material, and records of individual chimpanzees’ lives.

The archive had previously been organized through the University of Minnesota under primatologist Anne Pusey. When Pusey moved to Duke, the Jane Goodall Institute arranged for the collection to move with her, creating the Jane Goodall Institute Research Center at Duke.

A common mix-up is confusing the archive’s owner with its academic home: the Jane Goodall Institute owned the collection, while Duke provided the research center that housed, digitized and managed it. The long-running records are valuable because they allow scientists to study chimpanzee families, social bonds and behavior across generations rather than from short snapshots.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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