Coming of age in Ngogo

Rachna Reddy, co-director of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project in Uganda, describes more than a decade of observing adolescent chimpanzees in the largest group ever studied. The episode examines why adolescence is a scientifically fascinating life stage, the stages of chimpanzee life history, and adolescent greetings, dominance, grooming, social rejection, mentorship, deference, patrolling and female dispersal, as well as the community split at Ngogo and her narrative account of one chimpanzee’s coming of age.