Just how smart are monkeys? Their innate curiosity leads them to try new things, but it’s their culture — the passing of information from one generation to the next — that teaches them much of what they know. Their young learn by reaching out with their hands to experience the world around them, grasping new objects, slowly piecing together an understanding of their society. They learn from their families how to find food, communicate, recognize kin, even use tools, medicine, and language. It is these familiar actions that make monkeys so fascinating to humans. We can see ourselves in their faces, our nature in their actions.
NATURE travels around the world to visit some of these fascinating primates. From tiny pygmy marmoset in South America to aggressive baboons of Africa and compassionate toque macaques in Sri Lanka, Clever Monkeys challenges many ideas about what is purely “human.” Buy the DVD. This film premiered November 9, 2008.
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Besides dogs, monkey is another animal which always creates humor in me, it makes me laugh with at a time its intelligence, and its stupidity. Kids love to watch, and laugh when they see monkey in zoo or outside.
Just caught this episode. Great Job!
This is fascinating. although I am disappointed that the monkeys, some of them, have to kill to live. And we have to do the same thing. Somehow, buying the meat we eat removes us from our primitive origins.
Great presentation.
This is an AWESOME show!! I LOVE it!!! I love animals! I want to be a biologist when I grow up, so this is an awesome show to watch. Anyway, this is a great show!!!
monkeys are 1 gene away from us please dont cut them short they might take you over someday
i know now chimps are smarter then people have you watched the news lately
CHIMPS ARE PIMPS!!!!!!!!
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This program was very informative, but it was waaaaaaay too controversial. It touched on a personal subject and a belief in evolution. That offends some people, so I wouldn’t advise you to try something like this again, NATURE. It just touches too closely on religion, something most people don’t want to hear about coming from a show like this.
Monkeys are indeed the closest animal to mimic the human. Many sources actually state that the cleverest animals are dolphins though this has yet to be proven. I sincerely hope some wildlife organization will do something to protect the monkeys in the wild before they become extinct like the rhinos.
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Claire.
Perhaps it is the people with religion that should be insulted until they realize that monkeys do not have religion and that is what some people would do well co copy from the monkeys. Religion is the fear of things that cannot be proven–superstition. In that case, anything we wish to imagine and spread rumors about can become a fear and a new religion. Throughout history we have seen some 58,000 different Gods. Think, there are 36,000 different forms of Christianity now and few Christians have any idea what their religion means. They seldom read a think in that book of myths they call the Bible, They are afraid to say they don’t understand, but are willing to follow mindlessly. They are people doing monkey see monkey do. If my neighbor does it, I better do it too. I am afraid to think, and even more afraid to act, so i will do as the monkeys do and follow with my eyes closed.
Lets notice that as we grow in intellect and as science expands reality will continue to take over religion. Those of you who are religious can make a choice right now if you wish to realize the reality early in this or so late that you are seen as fools who will remain fools until you die.
Seriously people… There is no proof anywhere that there has ever been a God and There never will be. That is a ancient myth that the less intelligent cling to like frightened baby monkeys cling to a dead mother. Look, then realize–religion is a myth. No one has ever seen a God. heard from a good or seen a VALID work accomplished by a God–any God. Science does not follow fables and myths, science searches for truth and has never found one in any God. When you claim you will follow religion you only show others how much you lack in social power and mental agility and how afraid you are. Regardless of the little said, there are many millions of atheists watching quietly as you make a fool of yourself. When will you choose to stand straight and use your intelligence. Look, think, and get off this foolish God thing. You need to grow and become more than mindless followers.