Life producer Patrick Morris answers selected questions about the "
Primates" episode from our viewers.
Click the button below each question for the answer.
What were you hoping to achieve with the "
Primates" episode?
Were any of the film shoots particularly difficult?
What's your favorite scene in the "
Primates" episode?
Were there any behaviors in the "
Primates" episode that surprised you?
What was the most human-like behavior you observed?
Are
baboon battles as vicious as they seem?
How do
snow monkeys decide who gets to go in the spa and who doesn't?


Why do
Phayre's leaf monkeys have orange babies?
How did you decide which scenes to film for "
Primates"?
In "
Making of Life," I noticed that a camera woman was
filming chimpanzees. Are female camera women rare in natural history filmmaking?
What was the most memorable moment you had while filming the "
Primates" episode?
What's the status of orangutans in the wild?
Which of the
primates in
Life are most like the ancestral primates and why?