猴子：奇妙的动?[$物家族

　　Following the succ*-ess #[of ;
:?9Bi_-g Cats: An Amazing Animal Family', engaging pre;se) nter and biol: -.ogi\st Patrick Ayre
;e r##et  ;urns to investigat*+ ?]e our closest re
.?la)\tives i$n the natural wo / [rl d - primates. /&#.,39Monkeys: An%( Amazing Anim (al F#[.)ami!ly' is a lavish/:+^ do=\!cumentary that ,=-follo:-#ws Patrick a! \,cross ^[*;t@)he glob-%e as he ;.explores the/^ ?^@incr+ edible %\evolution
ary` rise of` % dazzlingly differe_nt primate+ species. Today, _$there ?^are more than  300 species of __primat
es.  */-All o`+f different shap]%:es a?
nd\)^ sizes, ^)they can - ,jump high,
e,+,r, swing fur;(th[er and;? % solve : pr^oblems ^]bet`te^#r tha,)n vir.tual /;ly=/ an,y o@*ther a!;nimal group o`,n Earth\@ . But how an ?d w;^h%(y?# Pat=($ri$ck gets up close * [and p=
;ers $@onal wit$$h a ;pes and monke;ys -%as he climbs the prima\/te fa;\)mily tree. Beginnin/$g 6*
].0 mil lion =[years ago in Asia 's dense f^ /or$:e,st[s, h$e% d _iscovers the [)*o _;rigin of the ea?[#
rlies+^t p$rimates
and how they conquered the! /-world, making it \)*from So*uth Africa to America whe/ ,re they evo:lv(( =ed into the i)
=ntellige?@%nt, inquis( i tive and more physical members of the pri$ `mat[e_ family that we !now kno@w as mon)keys . As w*+ell as in%,vestigat-]\^ing t)he rise of $[,/the apes and the birth of  our+ closest anim.[al r-^elat+ive, the* gorilla,! Patrick explores $?why t]hese creatures developed/! into incre*dible ac\,robats and how they @_(evo^:lv)]e-%.d] ; to h\_]ave st+ rong :a[-nd:$ l\-`ong tails, lo#u?d howls or h,uge claws. `#!^Fro??m t,he tiny mouse[:_ lemur ?%@to(: th,?e gi.`an#(t gorilla,
(? Patrick # $explor#!%es them a.ll in a stunning thr+ee-p%art _doc[u%menta*$ry that features []gorgeous pho:?. t,_ograp!h$?y, extraordinary anim;+a(*l beha vior and o+ne of TV- &#3$_9s,$ brig ht.%$est new p]*resen*=ti?ng talent
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