Overview: They are called the highest order of animal on the planet. Primates, with their big brains, are smart and adaptable.

They use tools, self-medicate, hunt and swim. They are social and political, form hierarchies and friendships, and can be very mischievous.

Get to know the many species of primates, from the familiar chimpanzee and gorilla, to the more obscure species such as the owl monkey, the slender loris, the drill and many more.

DVD Verdict: Filmed over two years on 28 filming expeditions across the globe - from Argentina to Borneo to Madagascar - this series captures primates' survival skills and relationship dynamics with the latest science and technology.

Experience from your screen extremely rare or never-before-seen moments, including one of the first images of the bald uakari and the recently discovered Tapanuli orangutan.

We also get to meet the scientists and dedicated people working and risking their lives to protect the future of primates.

Monkey see, monkey do. From baboons facing down leopards, to lemurs exploiting a jungle pharmacy or rhesus macaques charming their way to an easy life, discover the survival strategies used by primates, often in the most unexpected places.

This is a quite brilliantly done documentary with such a wonderful musical score in the background it also includes such fascinating video footages of how each of these primates survive, get food, use tools and even come up with their own medication and even more wonderful and fascinating to see SO many different colorful species of these animals in their natural habitat.

I was especially entertained by the scenes of the baboons facing down the leopard, the macaques and the squirrels competing over food and the bush babies finding nectar in the South African zoo.

Such awesome ways these animals figure out how to get food makes this most definitely a very enthralling documentary and one that I have since watched three times now with my family. This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.