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A chimpanzee eats a mango in a tree. National Geographic's JANE GOODALL: THE HOPE picks up where JANE (2017) left off, following Jane Goodall through three generations of advocacy work as she meets with everyone from schoolchildren in Zanzibar to Prince Harry and spreads a message of hope in a time of immense environmental change. (National Geographic/Bill Wallauer)

Jane Goodall: We must protect chimps from being exposed to covid-19

22 April 2020

Jane Goodall has tirelessly fought for a better world for humans and wildlife, and with covid-19 we must stay positive, she says 

chimps being identified

AI facial recognition software now works for wild chimpanzees too

4 September 2019

Artificial intelligence can recognise individual chimpanzees from their faces, giving researchers a quicker and cheaper way to track and study the apes
Two heads with some dots between them

AI passes theory of mind test by imagining itself in another's shoes

19 July 2019

AI has passed a test used to assess theory of mind in dominant and subordinate chimpanzees, paving the way towards machines that are more effective at communicating with humans

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