Monkey Life was created in 2006 and has continuously documented the work of Dr. Alison Cronin, MBE and her team at Monkey World; Ape Rescue Centre.
Filmed at Monkey World in Dorset, Monkey Life follows the rescue and rehabilitation of abused and neglected primates. Many have mental as well as physical problems so the Primate Care Staff treat their individual needs until they can be reintegrated with primates of their own kind. The primates at the park range from apes, who were taken from the wild as babies and used as photographers props on Spanish beaches to monkeys, many of which were rescued from the UK pet trade.
With unparalleled access Monkey World's dedicated team are filmed dealing with medical emergencies, primate moves, births and sometimes heart-breaking decisions. We follow Dr. Alison Cronin, MBE around the globe as she continues the park's mission to rescue abused primates. Monkey Life documents the daily life and drama of the world’s largest primate rescue centre.
Ein cleverer Schimpanse, ein aufopfernder Kaiserpinguin, eine mutige Löwin, eine tapfere Wildhündin und eine heroische Tigerin – sie alle stehen im Mittelpunkt dieser neuen BBC-Earth-Serie. Sie alle gehören zu den faszinierendsten aber auch gefährdetsten Tieren unserer Erde. Und sie alle sind Teil unvorstellbarer dramatischer und intensiver Lebensgeschichten.
Die fünfteilige Serie nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise von den Ebenen Afrikas bis in den Dschungel von Indien, vom Rande der Sahara zu den gefrorenen Wüsten der Antarktis und führt uns näher an das Leben von fünf der berühmtesten und gefährdetsten Tiere der Welt heran als jemals zuvor. Wir erleben wie Anführer gegen ihre Rivalen um die Krone kämpfen, wie interne Fehden ganze Familien zerreißen und Eltern ihr Leben riskieren, um am kältesten Ort der Welt ihren Nachwuchs zu schützen. Noch nie zuvor hat eine Naturdokumentation derartige Geschichten über Triumph und Tragödie aus dieser Nähe und dieser Detailliertheit beobachtet.
Monkey Business is a long-running TV series about the exploits of various primates who reside at Monkey World, a rescue centre and sanctuary for primates in Dorset, United Kingdom. The series features Jim and Dr. Alison Cronin, directors of Monkey World, as they travel around the world rescuing primates from lives of abuse, and returning them to Monkey World. Their goal is to rehabilitate the rescued primates and allow them to live in as natural a habitat as possible, being part of a group and living with friends of their own kind.
In einem Wald in Uganda muss eine große Schimpansengemeinschaft neben seiner komplexen Gesellschaftspolitik und Familiendynamik auch gefährliche Territorialkonflikte meistern.
Jungle Jim is a 26-episode syndicated adventure television series which aired from 1955 till 1956, starring Johnny Weismuller, as Jim "Jungle Jim" Bradley, a hunter, guide, and explorer in, primarily, Africa. The program should not be confused with Ramar of the Jungle, but is based on the Jungle Jim comic strip created by Alex Raymond and Don Moore. Starring with Weismuller were Martin Huston as Jungle Jim's teenage son, Skipper; Dean Fredericks as Haseem, the Hindu manservant, and Neal, a chimpanzee from the World Jungle Compound, as Tamba. Paul Cavanagh played Commissioner Morrison in nine episodes.
Produced by Harold Greene, the series was filmed by Screen Gems, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures. The program aired in 158 American media markets and in thirty-eight other nations.Earl Bellamy directed the first four episodes of the new series. The series capitalized on the popularity of Weismuller, who had just completed his last film of Tarzan, the jungle character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Jungle Jim was a low-budget offering that relied heavily on stock footage and was not renewed beyond its original episodes.
How do you cope when you suddenly become surrogate parents to 21 orphaned chimps? Jim and Jenny Desmond have chimps overrunning their home and even their bed.
Als Jane Goodall Anfang der 90er Jahre ein angekettetes Schimpansenbaby auf einem Markt in Zaire sieht, kommt für sie der Stein ins Rollen: Sie gründet eine Auffangstation für verwaiste Schimpansen und nutzt ihre öffentliche Reichweite dazu, Empathie für die Tiere zu vermitteln. Die Dokumentation zeigt die Geschichte, wie aus einer Forscherin eine unnachgiebige Tierrechterlin wurde. Es war die Begegnung Anfang der 90er Jahre mit einem angeketteten Schimpansenbaby auf einem Markt in Zaire, die alles ins Rollen brachte: Die Idee für eine Auffangstation für verwaiste Schimpansen war geboren.
Among The Apes gets up close and personal to four of the best known primate species. It features three apes -mountain gorillas, orang-utans and chimpanzees - and baboons, a monkey species living in the woody and grassy African habitats similar to the home of early man.