The Lawrence Jacobsen Library
DVD 0057 2005 The Jeff Corwin experience: primates

DVD 0057 2005 The Jeff Corwin experience: primates
Animal Planet / Discovery Communications [DVD; sd., col.; 30 min.: 2005]

Jeff travels to the homes of monkeys and apes around the world. At Tigre Island in Gatun Lake in Panama we see numerous New World monkeys including the Colombian black spider monkey (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris) and Central American spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) sharing space on one island and brachiating, night monkeys (Aotus zonalis) in a tree hollow, rufous-naped tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi) adults and infants. In Costa Rica, Corwin discusses capuchin (Cebus capucinus) monkeys' food habits, group living, and strategies for self-protection. We also see a habituated red-faced uakari (Cacajao calvus)monkey. In Borneo, Jeff visits an orangutan (Pongo) rehabilitation center and finds orangs and proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) in the wild. In the Jozani Forest in Zanzibar, Jeff encounters juvenile and adult red colobus monkeys (Colobus badius), island-bound, isolated, and endangered, eating and jumping in the trees. In India, a troop of Hanuman or black-faced langurs (Semnopithecus entellus) gather in a banyan grove and we see the physiology of the slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) close up. Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) serve as temple monkeys in Nepal. In Uganda, on Ngamba Island, Jeff visits a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) sanctuary. In Madagascar, Jeff tracks the nocturnal brown mouse lemur (Microcebus rufus).