Jane goodall biography chimps 60 minutes full

Post a Comment. The documentary begins with the narrator seated in front of a chroma key rendering of an open magazine, showing a photo of Jane Goodall embracing a chimpanzee.

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The narrator opens with a fairly common fact. She launched into international fame by National Geographic. Her stories about her life in an African forest with chimps made her an iconic figure. She was the first to discover that wild chimps were capable of making and using tools. The narrator explains this revelation turned the scientific world upside-down, challenging the convention that tool making was what made humans unique.

The documentary then takes us to the Gombe forest in Tanzania. We see Jane and the narrator traveling there by boat; the only method of transportation available across Lake Tanganyika, the longest lake in the world. Jane tells us that she had originally travelled to Gombe forest at the age of twenty-six, with no scientific training - only a notebook and a pair of binoculars.

Jane described it as a magical place fifty years ago, filled with new surprises everyday. The two travel with the crew for hours on foot to reach the spot where a chimpanzee family has lived for more than three generations. Jane instantly recognized the elders. She has known the family for fifty years, and lived with them for decades. Jane demonstrated her ability to identify family members simply by the sound of them walking over the forest floor, with her back turned to the chimps.