Film: The Baboons of Gombe


Film about a troop of baboons who live on the shores of lake Tanzanyka, narrated by Jane Goodall and featuring her, her husband, and their child, endearingly nicknamed "Grub." Showed such behaviors as male-male competition, males befriending females and h elping protect their young, males using their friends' young to protect themselves from attacks by other males, the insinuation of a new male into a troop, young being carried underneath their mother's bellies and then learning to ride on top of them as they age, childless females showing an extreme interest in newborns, and so on.