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This Jubilee bank holiday, help the rescued and endangered monkeys and apes at Monkey World in Dorset by donating a bag of unopened nuts. Every child who brings an unopened bag of nuts for the primates receives a free Monkey World badge over the bank holiday weekend. The nuts can be either shelled or unshelled … Read more
Witches and wizards, creatures of the night and spooky animal tales; read our pick of the best places to visit to keep your little horrors entertained this Halloween and half-term holiday … Head to ZSL Whipsnade Zoo for hairy, but not too scary, Halloween fun at Boo at the Zoo this October half-term from Saturday 19th to Thursday … Read more
Monday the 19th of August is International Orang-utan Day and Monkey World in Dorset is celebrating with a day dedicated to our orange cousins. Visitors can learn all about these amazing creatures and their plight in the wild while meeting the 15 orangutans that live at Monkey World. The Ape Rescue Centre is home to … Read more
GTO’s Sarah Jeffery recently visited Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre in Dorset. Open every day of the year except Christmas Day, the rescue centre has assisted governments around the world to stop the smuggling of primates from the wild since it was set up by Jim Cronin in 1987. Monkey World was originally created to … Read more
2018 has been a bumper year for Monkey World with the arrival of 12 new primates to the rescue centre in Dorset. The park celebrated the birth of two extremely rare woolly monkey babies and, most recently, a slow loris infant named Bob, who was born as part of the European Breeding Programme for this protected species. … Read more
With plenty going on at wildlife parks throughout the UK this festive season, we’ve selected our pick of the best Christmas events taking place this year… Longleat’s Festival of Light – A Fantastic Voyage is the Wiltshire attraction’s most ambitious ever Christmas event. Featuring more than 1,000 different illuminated lanterns and three-dimensional scenes, visitors can … Read more
This weekend will see the return of Monkey Life to our screens, the long running documentary series following life at the world’s biggest primate rescue centre – Monkey World in Dorset. Now in its 11th series, this edition of Monkey Life was filmed over a year and follows Dr Alison Cronin and the team as … Read more
Benny & Nia, a pair of young white-throated guenons, arrived at Monkey World in Dorset this week after being rescued from Lebanon. The incredibly rare monkeys were confiscated by Lebanese authorities at Beiruit airport after being smuggled from Accra, Ghana. White-throated guenons are a species vulnerable to extinction and native only to small regions of … Read more
Capel Manor College and Gardens is thrilled to be able to announce a very exciting addition to its ever expanding animal collection, a troop of common marmoset monkeys! ‘Rattler’, ‘Bassett’ and ‘Red’ are currently settling into their brand new, purpose-built enclosure next to the London Animal Management Centre, part of the Princess Royal College of Animal Management and … Read more
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