Name: Monkey Island
Uploaded: 2020-01-01
Duration: 10 min 17 s
Description: In 1938, an American psychologist and ethnologist captured 500 macaque monkeys and brought them to a remote and uninhabited Caribbean island. His project was to study a primate population roaming free, in a giant open-air laboratory.

In 1938, an American psychologist and ethnologist captured 500 macaque monkeys and brought them to a remote and uninhabited Caribbean island. His project was to study a primate population roaming free, in a giant open-air laboratory.

Set inside a real open-air laboratory founded in 1938, this episode follows free-roaming macaques whose rivalries, alliances, and family bonds have been studied for decades. As scientists track aggression, grooming, mating, and genetics, the island becomes a vivid mirror for human behavior. Sign up to see how primate society can sharpen the way you think about our own.

On a remote island, macaques reveal the roots of power and empathy.

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