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National Geographic's Among the Wild Chimpanzees [VHS]

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With the possible exception of "The Sharks", this is the most famous of all the National Geographic nature documentaries.

Jane Goodall has spent most of her life studying the chimpanzees, and here she shares what she has learned over the years about the behavior of a particular group of the primates. Touching, heartbreaking and frightening at times, the video's greatest moment may be when we see the chimps getting a meal of termites with...a tool. By the end, you'll feel as if you know many of the chimps. Quite an experience.

This is not your typical wildlife movie with chilling action scenes of predators chasing down and killing prey.

Rather, it is a meticulously laid out and nicely shot film about the extraordinary pioneering work done by Jane Goodall and her life among the wild chimpanzees of Africa. You get to see different chimps up close and to almost 'live' with them through the eyes of the camera and the narrator. The film spans enough years of the chimps' lives to see how their behavior changes as they mature and get older, and as the environment around them changes.

Through it all, you get to see Jane Goodall's compassionate, yet scientifically detached, interaction with these animals. At the end of the movie, you are totally in awe of her and what she has achieved in her life.

All in all, a film totally worth buying and watching.