European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 21, 1986 the stars and stripes Page Chimpanzee eats Straw in a Chimpanzee Cage. Students inset sit an special platform la a Steve the animals. Primate study in Colorado by . Guffey associated press p erched High on the Edge of the Colorado Rockies the Cheyenne Mountain zoo seems Light years away from the tanzanian Jungles where Jane Goodall has racked Chimpanzee behaviour Over the last 25 years Yel it is Here that Gao Datt came up with the idea of her newest Enterprise. Chem Ponzoo. While Goodall studies the wild chimps Al Combs Stream wildlife preserve College students will study captive chimps at Cheyenne Mountain and live other zoos across the United Stales. The distances from Combe Are part of what made Goodall think it would work. In 1975. Tour of Goodall s researchers were kidnapped and held by rebels from nearby Zaire. The four were released Sale Afler to months but the incl enl meant that Combe became a politically sensitive area for the tanzanian government the government discouraged further imports and i myself did not feel thai t wanted to take the responsibility for their safely Goodall explains. Hundreds of people meanwhile their Inta Resl piqued by National geographic television specials and articles continue 1o write Goodall each year asking to come and help even if Only by washing dishes for me others. La Elway a rather sad to while Back now that there s nothing i can offer you there s no Way 10 be part of my research " she says. Chimp zoo gives people a Chance to study primates Wilhour leaving the United states. It draws students from . Colleges and universities to zoos near their campuses. Some of what . Researchers learn irom watching captive chimps will reinforce what Combe researchers have Learned showing behavioural trails thai Are really truly. Innately Chimp and absolutely unchangeable regardless of the environment goo Riall predicts. Michael Nowak is the Colorado College Primat Logist who Heads the local Chimp zoo extort along with a psychology professor and zoo officials. He thinks Chimp zoo studies will also show us a lot about what Captivity does Colorado College is noted for ils modular approach to the Liberal arts immersing students in one limited area of study for about a month at a time. It s the perfect Selling fora project like Chimp zoo where students frequently wind up watching the chimps far longer than anyone requires. Zoos i California Florida North Carolina and Oregon also were enlisted for Goodall s latest project but Colorado College was the first to net students gathering data. Eight signed up Lor this summer s session Al Cheyenne Mountain. Colorado College students like Karen Coopersmith a 19-year-old Junior from Berkeley calif., compiled hours of videotapes and made observations on lengthy intricate forms. Of m taking another course and i Haven t done  for  Coopersmith admits one morning As she Sims on the carpeted observation platform inside the Cheyenne Mountain primate House. The firs Chimp zoo class worked a lot on what Goodall Calls environmental  with permission of zoo director Dave Allen the class introduced new materials to the spartan Concrete lion Rcd cages where the Cheyenne Mountain chimps live. Burlap. The chimps look it up on their sleeping platforms at night. Rope. Thech nips devised  like games. A basketball. Junior the group s dominant male used it to jump on As part of his display. Goodall has suggested introducing items like stationary pots of Honey or Mustard. The chimps would be lured by the treats to devise ways to get the Honey out of the pot. Just As they would with twigs in the wild ii would be a lol More interesting for zoo visitors too Goodall suggests failings plexiglas and bars separate Cheyenne Mountain visitors trom Cheyenne Mountain chimps. The Cheyenne Mountain cages Are clean bul these chimps have no Access to the outdoors. Goodat helped Start a fund raising drive for a new primate Center during her last visit. Obviously in s very sad Lor me to see chimps in cages she says softly. After being at it a Quarter of a Century Goodall shows no sign of tiring o her work at Combe she reels off lists of relationships and patterns on which she and her to Nantan held assistants still Haven t focused. The Jioie one learns Tho More one wants to follow it through she says. Wherever she is on her annual Lund rating Tours outside Tanzania Goodall always seems eager to gel Back to Combe but she has promised to visit each zoo and her surrogate students at least every other  and we will be Able to while tetters and occasionally Telephone Sho adds. You can do a lot that