Jane Goodall and the Wild Chimps: Pioneering Fieldwork at Gombe

Overview

This program chronicles Jane Goodall’s pioneering fieldwork with wild chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream Reserve. From a challenging arrival in 1960 to the breakthroughs that redefined what it means to be human, the narrative follows her decades-long observations, patient patience, and bold methods that revealed complex social lives, tool use, and meat-eating in chimpanzees. It also captures the dedication, risks, and evolving relationship between a young scientist and a wild, powerful animal world that reshaped evolutionary biology.