David Attenborough’s latest explores the lives of an orangutan family


Netflix handout film still: Secret Lives of Orangutans. Orangutans are not just one of our closest relatives, they?re perhaps more relatable to us than any other great ape. Narrated by David Attenborough, this film follows a remarkable group of orangutans in the pristine jungles of Sumatra. At the centre of this story is 8 year old Eden, who?s about to embark on the most challenging moment of her life.

Baby orangutan Emen will need some years of protection from his mother to survive

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Secret Lives of Orangutans
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One of humanity’s closest relatives, orangutans have provided some of the most memorable moments of David Attenborough’s latter filmography. Who can forget the older female with her construction skills in The Life of Mammals? Or the sobering footage in A Life on Our Planet of one orangutan clinging on to the last remaining tree in an area gutted by deforestation?

Now, for the first time in his TV career, Attenborough has dedicated a whole documentary to these endangered…

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