Tara Stoinski

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786 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 29 Apr

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Tara Stoinski Returns (primatologist) · 29 Apr 2026 podcast

Yeah, she's full-time there.

She's from Rome originally.

She's one of our two non-Rwandan staff that are based there.

So we're like, really the story of Pablo's group.

It's such a phenomenal group.

It broke every record.

There's just such an amazing story that's never been told.

So that's what we kind of pitched to them.

And then it worked out so well that the executive producer of the film actually had worked with David Attenborough before.

for a number of years.

So he went back to him, and then there's this iconic scene where when David went to Rwanda in 1978, I think, he was there to do a story about the opposable thumb.

So this very technical, anatomical story.

And he's sitting there and all of a sudden this three-year-old little fluff ball comes and just sits in his lap.

Oh my God.

And we don't anymore, right?

Like that was back in the day when we didn't realize how susceptible they were to our illnesses.

So now we try and stay a distance from them.

But yeah, I mean, he describes it as probably the most iconic moment in his history of filmmaking.

And he's turning 100 next month.

Wow.

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