Finding primates was a possibility, but they are very rare and very small, so yea, in the end, it was a surprise. Ken Campbell More Quotes by Ken Campbell More Quotes From Ken Campbell The general hypothesis is that - first of all, these monkeys were very small, they’re about the size of a small squirrel with a long tail. So they’re very small and as a consequence their food and water requirements would be much less than if they were very large. So the general hypothesis is that there were monkeys on a river bank. During flood season, trees get swept into the river and carried out to the ocean. As vegetation rafts, [the trees are] carried across on the Atlantic based on wind and current directions. This remains a hypothesis- there’s no proof yet, although the similarities between the monkeys suggests that it did happen. Ken Campbell science I’ve worked in the Amazon for many, many years - a lot of it dedicated toward looking for fossils and trying to understand the geology of the region. Ken Campbell science
