Monkey Life: Series 5 (2011)
7h 30min
- General info
- Available formats
- All series
- Synopsis:
Set in the Monkey World - Ape Rescue Centre in Dorset, UK, Series 5 is an emotional roller-coaster following the rescue and rehabilitation of some of the most abused and neglected monkeys in the world. Since the founding of Monkey World by the late Jim Cronin, MBE and Animal Director Jeremy Keeling in 1987, Monkey World has rescued primates from 18 countries worldwide. Dr. Alison Cronin, MBE and her team continue Jim's legacy with unwavering dedication to stop the illegal smuggling of primates from the wild, rescuing and re-homing primates in need, whenever they can. In MLS5, Alison and Jeremy travel to South Africa to bring back overweight orang-utan Oshine, who at 100 kilos is in need of a lifestyle transformation! Mike goes to France to collect baby golden-cheeked gibbon Mikado who is in need of a new home and the team travels to Lebanon to rescue chimpanzee Kiki, who was left on a roadside in desperate circumstances. Back at the park there's great excitement as golden-cheeked gibbon Zoe is pregnant, and the primate care staff prepare for two new woolly monkeys Oaska and Quapa, arriving from Basel Zoo in Switzerland. Ten stump-tailed macaques are rehomed from a medical facility in Scotland, but they all require urgent dental work. Tensions run high as Sammy, one of the parks most popular chimps goes under the knife and in Vietnam, there is a ground-breaking project underway as two golden-cheeked gibbons are set to be released back into their natural habitat. - Studio:
- Primate Planet Productions
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Documentaries, TV Reality Programming, TV Soaps