Jane should have joined him in the Serengeti just as he helped her in Gombe you couldn't help but feel she sabotaged her marriage and went back there to force a contrived relevance back in Gombe.
"There's no such thing as a broken hearted man read the letter from her Mom and seeing that she's has a strong hold on Jane's decision making, must have influenced her decision.
Had she trusted her spouse and opened her mind she might have conquered hyenas and zebras even, by studying them in the Serengeti. The man wasn't making money staying in Gombe and wasn't going to because of your need to feel relevant, play accessory to quite an overplayed knowing it wouldn't feed him, could have moved back to England, but he stayed close.
So the only logical thing to do was go with him to the Serengeti and it might have opened a new study and probably the consequent funds for such a study. Considering the late relationship that blossomed between he and his father even Grub understood that she made a wrong decision.
You get the feeling she wasn't needed in Gombe after her first stint, but she felt that the Gombe project was her baby it wasn't an attachment to her achievement it was rather an attachment, obviating low esteem, and a mom's over-dote.
Why was she ever in doubt.and he was there for her in Gombe and when it was time for her to be there for him, she quotes bickerings and divorced him and it is that want in sacrifice which makes the woman unable to match the man in parity.
Of course she had her correspondence from the Gombe and it want about the money the man never married but it's was the influence of her mother, who cascaded her less than stellar marriage in goading her to not playing second fiddle to a man.
She could go to Gombe anytime she wanted and could do some of the administering at the Serengeti through radioing but she just wasn't going to be helper to the man.
Her life was the chimps but the chimps weren't her life it takes some forceful participation to want to observer rather compulsively the second generation of a chimp you already studied, it was truly a running away from her responsibility as a wife's to a man it wasn't a replacement of her love but dental of her sacrifice.
I understand the logic behind Hugo's decision, every man does, he needed money, were there money in Gombe he would have stayed in Gombe.
I understand the logic behind Hugo's decision, every man does, he needed money, were there money in Gombe he would have stayed in Gombe.
He didn't care he Just wandered to be with her but for her it was simply ego, foolish pride.and it pains me when we cannot find simple common sense and the reciprocity of our sacrifice when it matters.
For Hugo Van Lawick... A true Hero. (RIP)
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