Family Matters

Chris Packham narrates a look at the complex social and family lives of the animal group, including leaf monkeys competing to babysit a bright orange infant and rally to defend it from a python, and gibbons learning daredevil treetop acrobatics with their playmates. In the Amazon, a female spider monkey elder leads its troop to aquatic plants brought within reach on raging floodwaters and shows them how they can feast on this unlikely bounty by using their remarkable tails as safety ropes.