Primatologists

A new play, “Hominid,” reenacts a violent incident that took place in a chimpanzee colony. Primate expert Frans de Waal and the play’s actors describe what it took to stage a chimpanzee drama with a very human story. Produced by Philip Graitcer, with Rob Weisberg.

A new play, “Hominid,” reenacts a violent incident that took place in a chimpanzee colony. Primate expert Frans de Waal and the play’s actors describe what it took to stage a chimpanzee drama with a very human story. Produced by Philip Graitcer, with Rob Weisberg.

Fifty years ago, Jane Goodall first walked into Gombe National Park in Tanzania. She talks about the changing political, environmental and ecological landscape in which she has dedicated her life’s work of studying the interactions of wild chimpanzees.

Richard Wrangham, professor at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, He joins The Takeaway with his take on human evolution — and its relation to cooking.

For our Geo Quiz today, we’re looking for the largest — and northernmost — island in the Indonesian archipelago. The answer is Sumatra. Anna Sussman reports that the rush for environmentally-friendly fuel is having a devastating impact on the island’s endangered orangutans.