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19.09.2006, 21:21

BBC - Science & Nature - Cousins



'Cousins' is the most complete natural history investigation into the world of primates, our closest living relations - from the earliest beginnings to the great apes. By observing some of the world's most spectacular primates, we see the story of how they evolved into the most social and intelligent animals on earth, as well as discovering the roots of our own origins. Primate expert Charlotte Uhlenbroek is our adventurous guide and her closeness to the primates illuminates the series. We are often fascinated, sometimes repelled, by the idea of the similarities between ourselves and primates. But the light of what we now know about the complexities of their minds and societies, what really sets us apart?




Programme 1 - The First Primates

In Rwanda, Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek finds herself grunting to a group of mountain gorillas for the first time. Accepted by these gentle giants, Charlotte finds herself the target for some laddish behaviour by two young black-back male gorillas.
In the dry forests of Madagascar, Charlotte meets the smallest primate in the world, a pygmy mouse lemur that would fit in the palm of her hand. Apes and monkeys never got across to the island of Madagascar, and in their place some weird and wonderful primitive primates flourish here.
Bamboo lemurs live off shoots of giant bamboo, which is heavily laced with cyanide. Golden bamboo lemurs consume what should be 12 times their lethal dose of cyanide every day and survive.

In northern Madagascar, Charlotte tackles one of the hardest landscapes in the world, the limestone tsingy. Her reward is to meet some crowned lemurs that scale the vertical rock faces with apparent ease. Deep in the caves beneath she unravels the mystery of the giant extinct lemurs that were as large as humans.
Madagascar's most famous residents are ring-tailed lemurs. The females are clearly in charge and with babies on their backs they lead the attack when there is conflict with other groups. Very few animals apart from humans gang up like this and go to war. It leaves no doubt that these are our long lost cousins.

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Programme 2 - The Monkeys

Charlotte Uhlenbroek meets the monkeys. At 3,000 metres up in the Simien mountains of Ethiopia, Charlotte encounters gelada baboons that live in groups of up to 800 individuals. The large lion-like males are busy attending to their harems and a lot of male posturing is going on. It looks fierce, but these are the teddy bears of the monkey world.

In Central America, Charlotte catches the attention of some laid-back howler monkeys by howling at them. Charlotte can't climb like the monkeys, so to get up into the canopy she dons a hard hat and harness and hauls herself up to get a monkey's eye view of the world.

Humans have the longest childhood of all animals, but young monkeys do stay with their parents for several years. In the remote mountains of central China, a baby golden monkey is the apple of everyone's eye. Like humans, older brothers and sisters want to hold the baby and play pass the parcel with it, until mum calls a halt to their game.
Also in China, Tibetan macaques are serious muggers that line up along the precarious path to the temples and operate a stop and search policy on pilgrims and tourists, grabbing food in exchange for a photo-opportunity. One 20-kilo macaque can cause a lot of damage, and when they gang up it's enough to start a riot. Every year, many people are bitten and some even fall off the cliff in a blind panic.

In a snowy valley in Japan, Charlotte is joined in a hot spring by a cheeky Japanese macaque. For a long time the Japanese have enjoyed bathing in the hot mountain springs, and back in the 1960s some young macaques joined them in the water. Eventually they had their own monkey health spa built for them higher up the mountai. Here they happily dive-bomb and wallow in the steaming water for hours. The youngsters even make snow-balls around the

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Programme 3 - The Apes

Charlotte Uhlenbroek goes in search of apes. The great apes - gorillas, orang-utans, chimpanzees and bonobos - have a great deal in common with humans. They even like to take a daily siesta and make a comfortable bed in the trees. In Borneo, Charlotte gets close to the giant 'man of the woods', the shy, charismatic orang-utan. In Rwanda, with the mountain gorillas, she tries a special gorilla mixed salad.
Charlotte returns to Gombe, Tanzania, where she first studied chimpanzees. Here the similarities with humans are uncanny. The chimps are making tools, using sticks to fish out ants and termites. In Guinea, the chimps are cracking open nuts using stone hammers and anvils. Like humans, they are even left or right-handed, a sure sign that their brains are similar.

Chimps are also political animals. They'll groom each other affectionately and kiss and hug to bond with their family and friends, but they are equally capable of ganging up against enemies and even killing members of neighbouring bands. In the Congo, apes called bonobos make love not war. There is great female equality and they use sex to help diffuse tensions and strengthen friendships.
When a chimp is seen dancing alone at a waterfall in an ecstatic state, Charlotte asks whether there may even be a spiritual side to these wild cousins.

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RunTime Per Part: ~49 mins
Number Of Parts: 3
Part Size: ~699 MB
Video Codec: 688x384 XviD ~1760 kbps
Audio Bitrate: 224 kbps AC3
Audio Streams: 1

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And here is the HP of Cousins
Du.. du... ich bin so wild nach deinem Erdbeermund,
ich schrie mir schon die Lungen wund
nach deinem weißen Leib, du Weib.
Im Klee, da hat der Mai ein Bett gemacht,
da blüht ein süßer Zeitvertreib
mit deinem Leib die lange Nacht.

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