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1) Jane
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Looks back at Jane Goodall's career as a primatologist, animal rights advocate, and environmental activist. Comprised of present-day interview segments with Goodall and archival footage of her work studying chimpanzees at Tanzania's Gombe National Park shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s for National Geographic.
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2023 high-definition program, learn all about how different species of animals birth, feed, teach, nurture, and protect their offspring. Why does a male emperor penguin incubate eggs in the cold of the Antarctic? How did a crocodile named Coquita lay a clutch of eggs in 2018 without access to a male partner? What is Parthenogenesis? How can a male seahorse give birth? How do honeybees learn to find food? How do chimpanzees learn to swing...
3) Chimpanzee
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of a three-year-old African chimpanzee named Oscar who is adopted by the leader of his group when a rival attack leaves him orphaned.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In Jane's Journey, we travel with her across several continents, from her childhood home in England, to the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she began her groundbreaking research and where she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her famous. An inspiring portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon, featuring a wide range of interviews and spectacular footage from her own private collection...
5) Project Nim
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The story of Nim, the chimpanzee who became the focus of a landmark 1970s experiment to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. But as Nim's natural instincts take over and the humans trusted with his well-being fail to protect him, Project Nim uncovers the unflinching and extraordinary journey of one animal thrust into human society.
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