These fascinating creatures have individual characters and the series follows them in their daily life. From power struggles in the chimpanzee troops to introducing baby orang-utans to the rest of the nursery group every day is a rollercoaster ride as the stories unfold.
With unparalleled access Monkey Worlds dedicated team are filmed dealing will medical emergencies, primate moves, births and sometimes heart-breaking decisions. We follow Dr. Buy yours from the Monkey World gift shop or Amazon. For information or questions related to the TV series only, please contact info primateplanet. Follow us on Facebook. Primate Planet Productions Limited. The result was spectacular breeding success.
Cronin thrived in this unconventional environment and set up a primate breeding programme under Aspinall's auspices despite his lack of academic qualifications. After seven years at Howletts, Cronin's streak of zealous anger about the fate of captive chimps - combined with a natural showmanship - led him to start rescuing orphan chimpanzees being used by Spanish beach photographers.
Early undercover television footage reveals his refusal to back down in the face of physical and verbal assaults and, all too often, official indifference. At the beginning of this crusade, Cronin bought a plot of gravelly heathland, a former pig farm, at Wareham, Dorset.
He got planning permission to build his first enclosures, and in opened Monkey World. Initially, it became home to nine rescued chimps. At the last count, it was home to primates from 13 countries, including the largest group of chimpanzees outside Africa and the most important breeding group of Borneo Orangs outside Borneo. Learning from his experience at Howletts, Cronin wrote his own rules on what Monkey World was to be. Enclosures at the acre sanctuary were spacious and designed using wood, mats and rope.
He described the physically and emotionally scarred chimps - some tortured with cigarette butts, force-fed tranquilisers, isolated and beaten - as having the same psychological problems as abused humans. They needed to learn to trust again, and required careful rehabilitation before integration into family groups. An initial decision was taken not to breed - the abused chimps would have been poor mothers - and Monkey World was one of the pioneers in primate birth control, including slow-release implants.
The growing success of Monkey World, which now attracts half a million visitors a year, acted as a springboard for Cronin's rescue and recovery campaigns around the world, from Turkey to Taiwan. High-profile schemes such as Adopt a Chimp and Cronin's typically up-front and forceful lobbying of people like prime minister Margaret Thatcher about the illegal trade in chimpanzees soon brought him to the attention of television programme-makers.
This interest culminated in the long-running Animal Planet series, Monkey Business, first transmitted in , a popular animal docu-soap about day-to-day life at Monkey World, which has been shown all round the world. Cronin's larger-than-life approach, his endless campaigning and bolshiness inevitably led to comparisons with other TV wildlife personalities, such as Australian Steve Irwin obituary, September 5 , although he never quite achieved the same celebrity status or notoriety.
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