8pm Thursday NATURE - PRIMATES: FAMILY MATTERS -
Documentary -
The importance of family to primates.
Get to know the many species of primates, from the popular chimpanzee and gorilla, to the more obscure species like the snub-nosed monkey, the slow loris, the tarsier and much more.
Nature Primates
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Family Matters - Family and social living are the key to primate success. In fact, family is everything for primates. They have the most complex social lives of any animal group on the planet. They share knowledge, forge alliances and protect each other.
Meet devoted monkeys’ uncles, playmate apes and tender troops. Dusky leaf monkeys compete to babysit a bright orange infant and rally to defend him from a python. Gibbons learn treetop acrobatics with their playmates. In Sri Lanka, a single gray slender loris mother takes care of her twins the most intimate video ever captured of the species. In the Amazon, an elder female spider monkey leads her troop to a unique food r