Cousins (TV series)

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Cousins
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Genre	Nature documentary
Presented by	Charlotte Uhlenbroek
Composer	Guy Michelmore
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	3
Production
Producer	Bernard Walton
Running time	50 minutes
Production companies	BBC Natural History Unit Discovery Channel
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	16 August (2000-08-16) – 30 August 2000 (2000-08-30)
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Cousins is a nature documentary TV series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, England, first transmitted in the UK on BBC One in August 2000. The series looks at the primates, the closest living relatives to human beings.

The series marked the debut as a television presenter of Charlotte Uhlenbroek, a 32-year-old primatologist who had worked with Jane Goodall at Gombe Stream studying chimpanzee behaviour. Over the course of the three, 50-minute episodes, Uhlenbroek encounters many species of primate, from the lemurs of Madagascar to the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. The animal behaviour filmed is used to explain the origins of primates and the development of skills and adaptations that have enabled human beings to become the most successful primate of all.