when was ham the chimp born
Mercury Primate Capsule and Ham the Astrochimp. On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space. However, three months earlier NASA had launched âNumber 65â on a mission that helped pave the way for Shephardâs momentous flight. Number 65 was a male chimpanzee born in 1957 in the French Cameroons in West Africa. After being captured by trappers, he was sent to a rare bird farm in Florida. In 1959, he was sold to the U.S. Air Force, who sent him to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
Jane Goodall was born in 1934 in London, England, to Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall, a businessman, and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph, a novelist who wrote under the name Vanne Morris-Goodall.oodall is best known for her study of chimpanzee social and family life. She began studying the Kasakela chimpanzee community in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, in 1960.