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Song For Love: An Ape With An App

Skywalker Gibbon
Courtesy of American Public Television
Skywalker Gibbon, Gaoligong Mountains on the China-Myanmar border. “Song For Love: An Ape With An App” is the extraordinary story of a rock star and a scientist who set out to save a disparate group of gibbons through love, imagination, technology and song.

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021 at 8 p.m. & Sunday, Oct. 10 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV

Blind dates for apes? It started out as a crazy idea to help the world's rarest gibbon, the Skywalker gibbon, find the perfect mate. Now, males and females, sight unseen, are making bonds for life.

“Song For Love: An Ape With An App” is the extraordinary story of a rock star and a scientist who set out to save a disparate group of gibbons through love, imagination, technology and song.

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With this exclusive access to the Skywalker gibbons in the wild, this film sports never-before-seen behavior of the existing families as well as the bachelors and bachelorettes amongst the gibbons.

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Courtesy of American Public Television
Skywalker Gibbon, Gaoligong Mountains on the China-Myanmar border. “Song For Love: An Ape With An App” is the extraordinary story of a rock star and a scientist who set out to save a disparate group of gibbons through love, imagination, technology and song.

This film is not available on demand.

Credits: Distributed by American Public Television. A co-production of Terra Mater Factual Studios, Mark Fletcher Productions and Colorful Nature Films.