量子资源网提供本资源 <> Following the success of 'Big Cats: An Amazing Animal Family', engaging resenter and biologist Patrick Ayree returns to investigate our closest relatives in the natural world - rimates. 'Monkeys: An Amazing Animal Family' is a lavish documentary that follows Patrick across the globe as he exlores the incredible evolutionary rise of dazzlingly different rimate secies. Today, there are more than 300 secies of rimates. All of different shaes and sizes, they can jum higher, swing further and solve roblems better than virtually any other animal grou on Earth. But how and why? Patrick gets u close and ersonal with aes and monkeys as he climbs the rimate family tree. Beginning 60 million years ago in Asia's dense forests, he discovers the origin of the earliest rimates and how they conquered the world, making it from South Africa to America where they evolved into the intelligent, inquisitive and more hysical members of the rimate family that we now know as monkeys. As well as investigating the rise of the aes and the birth of our closest animal relative, the gorilla, Patrick exlores why these creatures develoed into incredible acrobats and how they evolved to have strong and long tails, loud howls or huge claws. From the tiny mouse lemur to the giant gorilla, Patrick exlores them all in a stunning three-art documentary that features gorgeous hotograhy, extraordinary animal behavior and one of TV's brightest new resenting talents.
