| has gloss | eng: The Kasakela chimpanzee community is a wild Common Chimpanzee community that lives in Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. The community was the subject of Dr. Jane Goodalls pioneering study that began in 1960, and studies have continued ever since. was the matriarch of the F-family, so named because she and all her matrilineal descendents were given names beginning with the letter "F". In 1962, Flo was one of the first chimpanzees to approach Dr. Goodalls camp, along with her infant daughter Fifi. Video of Flo approaching Dr. Goodall and allowing Fifi to reach out to touch Dr. Goodalls forehead, letting Dr. Goodall know she had been accepted, is shown in the IMAX film Jane Goodalls Wild Chimpanzees. Later she brought her sons Figan and Faben, who would later become prominent members of the community to the camp, and when she came into estrus in 1963 she attracted the communitys males to Dr Goodalls camp. |
