• MONKEY LIFE: ABOUT

  • Monday 6 February at 12:00PM
  • Nat Geo Wild

DESCRIPTION

Monkey Life follows the day-to-day lives of over 240 monkeys and apes that live in one of the largest primate rescue centres in the world. Set in the unique Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre in Dorset, in this much-loved series see the nail-biting rescue and rehabilitation stories of some of the most abused and neglected monkeys in the world.

Witness the team's unwavering hard work in their ongoing mission to stop the illegal smuggling of primates from the wild. So far they've rescued primates from 18 countries all over the world, where they were being mistreated in laboratories, as exotic pets, as photographer's props, or as circus animals.

Monkey Life observes the dramas great and small as they unfold at this rescue centre which ensures their charges are given the best possible love and attention for the rest of their lives.

EPISODE GUIDE

  • Monkey Life: Episode 1
    Follow the rescue missions of Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre and daily life in the sanctuary for abandoned and neglected primates.
    Next Showing:  
    Monday 6 February at 12:00PM - Nat Geo Wild
  • Monkey Life: Episode 1
    New. Follow the rescue missions of Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre and daily life in the sanctuary for abandoned and neglected primates.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 2
    New. At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, the staff struggle to work out what's up with Trudy the chimp and a new arrival tries to escape.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 2
    At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, the staff struggle to work out what's up with Trudy the chimp and a new arrival tries to escape.
    Next Showing:  
    Monday 6 February at 12:30PM - Nat Geo Wild
  • Monkey Life: Episode 3
    At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, the staff head to a derelict farm to save a squirrel monkey and the chimps play football.
    Next Showing:  
    Monday 13 February at 12:00PM - Nat Geo Wild
  • Monkey Life: Episode 3
    New. At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, the staff head to a derelict farm to save a squirrel monkey and the chimps play football.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 4
    New. At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, a baby woolly monkey meets his family and new windows in the orangutan nursery bring disaster.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 4
    At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, a baby woolly monkey meets his family and new windows in the orangutan nursery bring disaster.
    Next Showing:  
    Monday 13 February at 12:30PM - Nat Geo Wild
  • Monkey Life: Episode 5
    At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, the chimps work out how to make snowballs and Charlie the chimp takes a turn for the worse.
    Next Showing:  
    Monday 20 February at 12:00PM - Nat Geo Wild
  • Monkey Life: Episode 5
    New. At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, the chimps work out how to make snowballs and Charlie the chimp takes a turn for the worse.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 6
    New. Near their sister sanctuary in Vietnam, the Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre team find a silvered langur monkey in need urgent rescue.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 6
    Near their sister sanctuary in Vietnam, the Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre team find a silvered langur monkey in need urgent rescue.
    Next Showing:  
    Monday 20 February at 12:30PM - Nat Geo Wild
  • Monkey Life: Episode 7
    At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, the snow keeps most chimps inside and an accident puts a baby monkey's life on the line.
    Next Showing:  
    Monday 27 February at 12:00PM - Nat Geo Wild
  • Monkey Life: Episode 7
    New. At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, the snow keeps most chimps inside and an accident puts a baby monkey's life on the line.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 8
    New. Baby Diego graduates to join the adults and chimp Trudy falls victim to an inexplicable condition.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 8
    Baby Diego graduates to join the adults and chimp Trudy falls victim to an inexplicable condition.
    Next Showing:  
    Monday 27 February at 12:30PM - Nat Geo Wild
  • Monkey Life: Episode 9
    The staff head to Belfast to pick up a ringtailed lemur who has taken over a family home.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 9
    New. The staff head to Belfast to pick up a ringtailed lemur who has taken over a family home.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 10
    New. Peanut the gibbon presents her newborn, while Jeremy confirms many more monkeys are expecting babies.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 10
    Peanut the gibbon presents her newborn, while Jeremy confirms many more monkeys are expecting babies.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 11
    Chimps Buster and Mickey get their teeth checked on dentist day at the sanctuary.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 11
    New. Chimps Buster and Mickey get their teeth checked on dentist day at the sanctuary.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 12
    New. At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, Pip the chimp undergoes an operation and the staff treat all the chimps to ice lollies.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 12
    At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, Pip the chimp undergoes an operation and the staff treat all the chimps to ice lollies.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 13
    New. At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, two Chilean monkeys try to adapt to life outside after having been rescued from laboratories.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 13
    At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, two Chilean monkeys try to adapt to life outside after having been rescued from laboratories.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 14
    Police raid a farm, finding two tamarins from Colombia in desperate need of a new home.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 14
    New. Police raid a farm, finding two tamarins from Colombia in desperate need of a new home.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 15
    New. Having spent her early years cooped up as a pet, Kaiyah the lemur struggles to adapt to her new enclosure.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 15
    Having spent her early years cooped up as a pet, Kaiyah the lemur struggles to adapt to her new enclosure.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 16
    At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, the chimps enjoy a fun and tasty party with buckets, jelly and soap suds provided.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 16
    New. At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, the chimps enjoy a fun and tasty party with buckets, jelly and soap suds provided.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 17
    Vet Mike tailors a designer jacket for capuchin Bruce and baby Tia-Nang shows her mum she's grown up.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 18
    Alison goes undercover to save a chimp who is forced to work as a photographer's prop in Turkey.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 19
    New. At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, the world's oldest woolly monkey has a bad day, and the orangutans celebrate.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 19
    At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, the world's oldest woolly monkey has a bad day, and the orangutans celebrate.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 20
    The new nursery opens but despite a storm, new mum Hsiao-Quai refuses to bring her baby indoors.
  • Monkey Life: Episode 20
    New. At Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre, the new nursery opens but despite a storm, new mum Hsiao-Quai refuses to bring her baby indoors.
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