Dark Days in Monkey City
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Is it age appropriate?
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Not age appropriate for kids under 9, age appropriate for kids over 13; suggested age 13. -
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Common Sense says
Docuseries veers more toward frightening than informative.
Why We Rated This
for Ages 13 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
About Dark Days in Monkey City
Parents need to know that this isn't a warm, fuzzy Animal Planet series. The featured primates aren't nice, happy little monkeys -- they're seriously mean, and the narration's tendency to give them personalities and motivations makes them seem even meaner. They fight constantly, sometimes to the death -- it's all natural behavior, but it can gert pretty intense (sometimes even bloody). Animated graphics also include blood "splatters." Bottom line? Teens and mature tweens should be able to handle this look at the darker side of nature, but it's too intense and scary for little kids.
Read our full review by Anne Louise Bannon
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about what they think this series is trying to accomplish. Is it trying to educate and inform or shock and entertain? Or both? Does editing the monkey footage together in a way that creates a narrative help viewers understand the animals or make it harder? Why? Families can also discuss using animation as part of a documentary. Does it help tell the story more accurately or obscure what's going on?

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