Monkeys: An Amazing Animal Family

Monkeys: An Amazing Animal Family

Monkeys: An Amazing Animal Family

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Monkeys: An Amazing Animal Family

2016

1 Seasons

6 Episodes

8.0(1 votes)

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Patrick Aryee takes us on a journey through time, to retrace the primate family’s astonishing rise to power through the twists and turns of its family tree. Travelling to wild locations in Central and South America, Africa and Asia, he gets eye to eye with some of the planet’s most charismatic and mischievous monkeys.

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