During the seventies, Gombe became a dangerous place to work. It is on the border of four different countries and there was fighting between soldiers and rebels. Many foreigners fled the region, but Jane stayed-with a military escort-to continue her work. In one of her journals from this period she noted that chimpanzees could also be violent: "I thought the chimps were nicer than we are," she wrote. "But time has revealed that they... can be just as awful."