这是三位女性的传奇故事，她们踏上了另类的人生旅程，和人类的最近亲「类人猿」共同生活。事实上，人类也是类人猿的一种，我们的基因超过96%相同，因为数百万年前，我们拥有共同祖先。
我们的最近亲是黑猩猩，其次是大猩猩，之后是号称「森林人」的婆罗洲巨型红毛猩猩。我们的寿命相若，很多行为习惯，以至人格特质都有相似之处。然而，半个世纪以前，除了「金刚」和泰山系列电影，我们对它们几乎一无所知。

三位年轻女性改变了这一切，进而作出更大突破。珍．古德离开英国，到非洲与黑猩猩共同生活，成为当代最著名女性之一；美国人戴安．弗西守护卢旺达山地大猩猩，最终以悲剧收场，一生志业成为传奇；加拿大人碧露蒂．高地卡斯深入婆罗洲森林，和红毛猩猩生活在一起。她们被冠以「追猩三女侠」之名，在「国家地理」专题和电影中着称。

她们三位都超越了纯科学的界线，热心投入倡导议题，唤醒世人关注雨林，以至地球的状况。

Trimates - Episode 1

This is the epic story of three women who embarked on lifelong journeys to live with humanity’s closest living relatives, the Great Apes. In fact, we are Great Apes too. We share over 96% of our DNA with them because we share a common ancestor millions of years ago.

The closest cousin is the chimpanzee, followed by the gorilla, and finally by “the person of the forest”, as the majestic orangutan is called in Borneo. We share similar life spans, many behavioural habits and personality traits. Yet half a century ago, we hardly knew anything about them outside of King Kong or Tarzan movies.

Three young women changed all that, and much more: Jane Goodall left England to live with the chimpanzees of Africa, and became one of the most famous women of our time; American Dian Fossey championed the mountain gorillas of Rwanda and met a tragic end, but made her cause legendary; and Canadian Biruté Galdikas went into the deepest jungles of Borneo to live among the orangutans. They became known as the Trimates, celebrated in National Geographic features and in films.

Each one crossed the line from pure science to passionate advocacy, and awoke the world’s awareness about the state of the rainforest, and of the whole planet.