Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre Monkey world.

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On pay tv in Australia there is a show about a place in England that takes in chimps and orang utans from circuses and small menagaries. It's called monkey world. Have any of the English forum members been there?
 
No I've not been, but I have heard of it. Never seen the show yet though. Possibly because I'm not all that keen on Primates.
 
boof said:
On pay tv in Australia there is a show about a place in England that takes in chimps and orang utans from circuses and small menagaries. It's called monkey world. Have any of the English forum members been there?
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Monkey World is on the South Coast, in Dorset. I've been several times but not recently. It started off as a Chimp Rescue centre, with mainly chimpanzees rescued from beach photographers in Spain. over the years they hav gained a large number of chimps and now have about three large groups. They later added other monkeys and apes which became available- some rescued, some zoo surplus- and as well as the Chimpanzees, they now have (or have had) the following;
Bornean Orangutans, about nine- mostly from a rescue centre in Taiwan.
Siamangs.(surplus zoo pair)
several gibbon species, mostly rescued in Taiwan- includes Lar, White-cheeked(several pairs) etc
Barbary macaque( zoo surplus from Chester- but the last of this group may have died by now)
Stump tailed macaques, originally about 18 old animals- enclosure was financed by laboratory which was 'retiring'them.
Capuchins. Squirrel monkeys. ringtailed & Ruffed lemur. Marmosets.

There may be new species aquired recently but I don't know of any. They have a website but its not been online recently, since the founder, Jim Cronin, died recently. I think his wife will continue to run it. It is a small, privately run operation and the animals are well cared for. The accent is on care rather than breeding but several species(chimps, orangs,siamang, lemurs etc) have produced young.

Worth a visit if you are in the area but it is not a large collection.
 
The only reasonably rare species would be Woolly monkey's and some of the gibbon subspecies, allthough the rare ones will probably have moved on to be coupled in other collections...
 
I've been. I went about 5 or 6 years ago. Not the best place in the world. My mum loves orangs, and I agree with, but apart from that It was just too monkeyish!!!
 
jwer said:
The only reasonably rare species would be Woolly monkey's and some of the gibbon subspecies, allthough the rare ones will probably have moved on to be coupled in other collections...
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I forgot the Woolly Monkeys, I think they may have come from Apenhuel originally.

Regarding the Gibbons- there are Mueller's (2 pairs?) as well as White-cheeked(several pairs) and Lar. (Siamang was one pair plus offspring but they are zoo surplus, not rescue animals).
They seem to establish pairs from the rescued animals- one White-cheeked came all the way from Pretoria Zoo to make up a pair with a rescued one. And I don't think they pass ANY of their animals on to other collections. I think new spacious Gibbon enclosures were being built to house all the gibbons,(probably about 12-15 animals.)
 
does anyone else find it tacky and misleading that an "ape rescue centre" (which actually keeps many non-ape primates) is called "monkey world" (when apes are not actually monkeys)?????
 
who cares, i mean really. lol
besides, its probably under water by now anyway. poor monkeys, or apes.
poor old england.
i think the centre is doing wonderful work, and to all our UKzoobeaters i hope youre all above the high water mark!
 
awwww glyn post something in the australian section. and why should i go live in wallacia come to think of it?
 
lol, because you love wallacia ;)
i know, i was kinda suprised to see YOU posting in the UK section. but i just granted your wish and posted something about QLD-brown bears in fact. and yey to our new Sydney member. the convicts are making a comeback ;)
btw, mark, are you out there, lost in zooworld
 
mark got upset a while back and went quiet. i think it was something to do with big cats - can't remember.
 
patrick said:
does anyone else find it tacky and misleading that an "ape rescue centre" (which actually keeps many non-ape primates) is called "monkey world" (when apes are not actually monkeys)?????
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As Glyn said, 'Monkey World' do some goodwork in rescuing primates in distress- it all started with photographers beach chimpanzees from Spain.

However, I've always thought its a rather 'naff'(= tacky) place- they are very hot on commercial publicity but need to be in order to raise funds. The original enclosures were adequate but were built in a real hurry (at low cost) for the first chimpanzee groups and so were extremely basic designs. They've improved somewhat over the years as they've gone along. The newer Orangutan enclosure is enormous but still very unnattractive....

I'm afraid I'm probably rather biased by comparisons as I think Apenheul, the dutch 'primate park' is absolutely superb.... And no, Monkey World isn't underwater....
 
patrick said:
does anyone else find it tacky and misleading that an "ape rescue centre" (which actually keeps many non-ape primates) is called "monkey world" (when apes are not actually monkeys)?????
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I never really thought about it, to most people apes and monkeys are the same thing. I lost count of the amount of people at Chester Zoo who used to ask me where the monkeys were. I would go into exraordinary detail to explain how to get to the monkey house from their present location, only to be asked if that was where the way out was. They wanted to find the car park, which at the time was near to the Orang Utans. I never knew why they could not just ask for the car park.

I'm not bothered what Monkey World calls itself.
 
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I am sure that the average person wouldnt know the difference between apes , monkeys ,and even primates ...... and they may have decided to expand beyond what the title is ...... a bit like if a "Reptile World " decided to house amphibians as well as reptiles .....

However , I am sure that most zoologists would notice the irony
 
i think monkey world - dorset is a great place and is not tacky and has unquie encolurse designed for the animal need - lets rember nearly 90 % of their primats and apes came from neglect and they need all the funds they can get to resuce more primates in need from all over the world . and more primates need to be rescued monkey world has done more for the phight of apes than anywhere else ! and yeh it is better than that ducth place they have copntributed to some of the rarest apes and monkeys with there breeding !!!! and who really cares about the title of the place - orignanly they just had apes buit expanded to help those primates in need - peopel who go on about the irony of the place havent been there or are stuck up their own arse and people how run it down are the ones are for species to be not tried to be saved !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I would visit monkey world for the orangutans and gibbons alone, yes there exhibits lack creativity but aslong as it satifiys the animals needs then thats all that matters.

I hope that have some more gibbon births soon, as they have had many of the pairs for a few years now with only one succesfully birth last year
 
I'm not sure if Monkey World sees itself nowadays as primarily a Rescue Centre, or somewhere which attempts to breed from the more endangered species such as the gibbons and orangutans. It seems to be some of both...
 
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