Clever Monkeys

David Attenborough entertaining romp through the world of monkeys has a serious side: for when we look at the monkeys that we see ourselves. From the moral memory of the “false alarm” to politics, the monkeys are our basic plan. “Farm” pygmy marmosets tree sap, bearded capuchins in Brazil to develop a production line for the extraction of palm nuts, white-faced capuchins in Costa Rica tenderly nursing the victims of the battle, and the highlands of Ethiopia has a Gelada Baboon deposed blues.