And that’s how you do that. Stuever: Somewhere between hard science and the Banana Splits, television has this insatiable need to apply human story lines to the lives of animals, and increasingly more animal channels on which to do it. I get the appeal, for I, too, felt a tiny pang in my cold, cold heart when Flower the Meerkat met her end on Animal Planet’s successful “Meerkat Manor.”
But something’s wrong with “Rebel Monkeys,” a pseudo-reality series about a gang of 60 or so rhesus macaques who live in (infest, some might say) Jaipur, India. Instead of being charmed by the show, which premieres Wednesday night on the new Nat Geo Wild network, I wound up rooting for the power lines that frequently jolt these obnoxious little primates as they skitter about the slums to steal and beg food. They’re rats with thumbs!
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