Jane Goodall on Instinct

Published on 03/26/2015
CATEGORIES: Video

In this charming animated interview from the PBS Series Blank on Blank, Jane Goodall discusses her early dreams of studying animals in the wild, and how meeting Louis Leakey in Kenya made it possible for her to start her pioneering chimpanzee research.

Category: : Video
SUBJECT(S): Jane Goodall

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