Cousins

The first in a three-part series about our primate relatives. Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek embarks on her global adventure to meet monkeys, apes and the other furry members of the family from which we came. 

Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek meets the world's smallest monkey, the "new man" marmoset, the Chinese monkey muggers and more. 

Concluding the series about our primate relatives.Sex and spirituality among chimpanzees is on the agenda as Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek meets our closest cousins, the apes. The family reunion also includes the acrobatic gibbons of Thailand, the playful mountain gorillas of Rwanda and the orang-utans of Borneo.