• 2009
The Secret Life of Primates

Summary This brand new documentary series sees renowned primatologist Charlotte Uhlenbroek undertake one of the biggest challenges of her career. Over four episodes, Charlotte travels the world on a quest that brings her face to face with some of the world's greatest primates. View more details

  • 2009

The Secret Life of Primates

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Charlotte Uhlenbroek

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7.1

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jun 20, 2009

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Borneo

Production companies : Dragonfly Film Productions

Summary This brand new documentary series sees renowned primatologist Charlotte Uhlenbroek undertake one of the biggest challenges of her career. Over four episodes, Charlotte travels the world on a quest that brings her face to face with some of the world's greatest primates. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jun 20, 2009

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Borneo

Production companies : Dragonfly Film Productions

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Among the Apes (2009) Among the Apes (2009)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 07, 2009
Chimps
Primatologist Charlotte Uhlenbroek comes face to face with some of the world's greatest primates. Here, she's in Uganda for a close encounter with a group of wild chimpanzees.
Episode 2 • Jun 27, 2009
Baboons
Charlotte Uhlenbroek travels to Tanzania for a close encounter with a troop of wild baboons.
Episode 3 • Jul 04, 2009
Orangutans
The orangutan is highly endangered, having lost nearly all its forests over Asia and rapidly still more to plantations. Conservation will only save it if programs are developed to reintroduce captivity-bred apes to the remaining wild tracts. Such a program in Sabah (northern Malaysian Borneo) shows how complex and hard to learn their lives are, requiring intricate knowledge of the forest, such as edible plants and when they bear fruit, while Charlotte demonstrates her utter ignorance.
Episode 4 • Jul 11, 2009
Gorillas
Charlotte's team joins a German zoologist with a ludicrously large local escort to study mountain gorillas in an Uganda forest reserve, demonstrating her ignorance about that environment as well as poor practical planning. The apes prove rather elusive and the jungle weather a terrible spotting-spoilsport. The family of 17 has a rather strict hierarchy where only the youngsters enjoy exemption from the rule of the biggest. The system makes the silver-back their benign despot as well as protector, with two black-back males in waiting, yet the most enterprising one sneakily mates most females too. Nearly all their time is spend eating as their vegetable diet requires an incredible mass of food.
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