Dr. Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most preeminent primatologists, will visit Baltimore next month to reflect on her ...

When Jane Goodall was just 26 years old, she began trekking through the forests of Tanzania to study wild chimpanzees. At first they'd run away from her, but after months of patient interaction ...

Goodall presents us with a very interesting question—if apes are in fact as angry, as violent, as caring, as loving, and as ...

Apes share up to 98.7 percent of their DNA with humans, notes primatologist Jane Goodall, who says that in a half century of observing chimps she saw many examples of compassion, altruism ...

This is the epic story of three women who embarked on lifelong journeys to study and protect humanity’s closest living relatives: the great apes. That is, the other great apes. Humans are, after ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. National Geographic Documentary Films: Directed by Brett Morgen with music by composer Philip Glass, the feature ...

In She Walks With Apes, a documentary from The Nature of Things, we explore the research of these three women — Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Canadian Biruté Galdikas — who were selected to ...

The great thing about Gombe is not that Jane Goodall “redefined” humankind but that she set a new standard, a very high standard, for behavioral study of apes in the wild, focusing on ...