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By S teph S awyer Sid Vicious (aka Sidney) Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby & K aren S wann Meets Chuck Norris By S teph S awyer stature compared to some of our other recently had a falling out. We tried to put him marmosets so she carried the weight with a new group but he was proving to be e first began the introduction between reasonably well. hen she first went rather difficult. n the day of the introduction our two newest arrivals believing we were into her new enclosure she came out scar seemed interested straight away. about to introduce two male marmosets. of her travelling crate straight away hey first looked at each other through mesh H owever, our suspicions were roused and seemed ery confident in moing but as all the signs looked good we opened when, in the first tentatie greeting around and exploring her new home up the slides between them. Then there was between the pair, we witnessed what seemed to be flirting behaiour from id. and was very q uick to accept treats no stopping scar he went straight oer to A fter a closer look (made easier when S id from Care S taff. S ometimes R uby and tried to mate her. R uby seemed moved through a tunnel above our heads) our new marmosets can be a little slow ok with scar initially but after a few of his we discovered that what we had been to eat as moving home can be a scary advances she told him off and he backed Sidney at her previous home. informed was a male marmoset was in fact huck Sidney in a basket together. business for them but it appeared away. H e then started acting a bit calmer. lison with uby her previous home. a female! S id came to us in extremely poor that nothing was going to put R uby ater that day we saw scar grooming uby physical condition- her leg bones were on to share the same basket. A gain, Chuck off her food and she enthusiastically ate which is always a good sign. A fter just two We had heard a little about R uby, the anything and everything we offered her! badly deformed from poor nutrition and as was unsure about this in the beginning but black-tufted marmoset, before she arrived, days together they started bedding down in such she held her legs in such a way that as time went on he clearly started enjoying er confident personality had her taking the same sleeping basket. The relationship including stories about her dominating the everything in her stride and over the next made it difficult to determine her sex until the companionship of his own kind. The dogs, cats and rabbits that she had lived between these two has continued to go from she began to move around above us. S he pair also happily share the same food bowl few days she settled in very well. We left strength to strength but it is very much a with in a home in G rimsby. H er aggression her on her own for the first couple of days was q uickly re-christened S idney! which is great to see as S idney hadn’ t been towards the rabbits and one of the cats got so case of little and large. A s we said R uby is eating q uite as much as we would have so that she had time to adjust to her new our largest marmoset weighing 6 3 0 grams A s we were now dealing with a male and bad that the other animals had to be locked surroundings, and we began thinking about liked when she first arried. t seemed that away from the domineering marmoset. We whereas scar is one of our smallest female introduction, things progressed seeing Chuck tuck into some tasty treats which of our marmosets would make a weighing just 2 6 0 grams. E ven though he pretty smoothly, though neither of the expected that we might have one feisty lady suitable companion for her. encouraged S idney to do the same! on our hands! is small in size he more than makes up for it marmosets had seen another of their e decided on scar. scar had been living in personality and R uby seems very happy kind since being taken away from their erall the introduction proed to be a R uby appeared to be in reasonably good with two male marmosets until they had with him. mothers at a young age to be sold into the complete success. Chuck and S idney were condition, she was bright, alert, and looked pet trade. From the start S idney was very able to be left together overnight and were to be q uite a large lady. We weighed her on interested in Chuck and started following seen sleeping in the same basket. The pair arrival and she was 6 3 0 grams. Most of our him around. Chuck was interested in his have continued to live together happily ever marmosets weigh between 3 5 0 – 5 0 0 grams, new companion but was more nervous after since that first day. this was a particularly and moved away several times. S idney large lady, though she continued to follow him but was careful was q uite large in Chuck spent a lot of time roaming the flat. not to be too intense and kept a respectful distance. A s the pair got used to each other we saw them exchange several sweet, friendly greetings and then went

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ohn ewis gave huck a vasectomy. huck eventually walked into his uby at Monkey World Sidney in her travelling bo . outside enclosure 2 3 KAI, JOLY & LINGGA UPDATE ON DINDA & MOVE HOUSE By J eremy K eeling ai at Monkey World HSIAO-NING Yet again, our babies have IN ROSTOCK grown up and need to move on and start a new life. ur orangutan accommodation was We q uickly set about releasing the bulging at the seams; the success of weary travellers into their spacious new the orang cré che meant the nursey had accommodation and reuniting the trio. eremy happened to meet oly’s adoptive parent, Sophie vent evolved into a youth club and it was time K ai and the girls had not lived together at and her family, at io Safari Elche to graduate K ai, J oly and Lingga so they Monkey World for the past 2 years though could spread their wings and start a new they had shared a “ next door” life so they adult group. were clearly not strangers. The bond was very strong and the harmony between the The excellent new facilities of the R io S afari three was obvious. K ai and Lingga seemed in E lche, S pain were chosen as their new very happy exploring the new enclosure ingga was cautious e ploring her new enclosure. home. A single adult male already resides outside though J oly chose to stay inside for there, with a family group of lar gibbons, the moment. They were all fascinated by and accommodation was available as they the A merican bison living next door, J oly in have two island enclosures and a very particular, so she gave them a disapproving large house to keep two separate groups grunt, and when they ignored her minor of orang-utans. protest she lost interest in them. A fter the usual and time consuming red The team at R io S afari E lche are clearly tape had been successfully waded through very experienced and caring of their animals Both H siao-ning & Dinda are doing really a date was set for the move. We opted to and hae the deepest respect for their well at R ostock Z oo. H siao-ning enjoys drive and deliver our three orange chaps standards of care and the new orang-utan activities such as picking fruit out of ice ourselves so we could be responsible for facilities that K ai, J oly, and Lingga will be oly likes the cool shade of the large indoor house. ai is a beautiful young man. lollies while Dinda celebrated her 10 th their care on the long journey. This way K ai, able to enjoy long into the future. birthday with a special cake! Both girls look J oly, and Lingga would be around familiar great and seem to enjoy their new family. faces during a stressful change in their routine and throughout what was going to be a long road trip in a transport crate. With our experience doing such moves, we are probably second to none for the job. Prior to the journey K ai was set a daily crate training regimen that he thoroughly enjoyed. A t 6 am on A ugust 15 th our plans went very smoothly. K ai was a perfect gentleman and walked straight into his transport box and allowed the door to be shut and bolted. ur veterinarian, J ohn Lewis, gave J oly and Lingga a light sedation to get them safely moved into their transport crates. A ll three performed a few tests on the strength of my welding, in true orang style, before we loaded them into the van where they soon settled for the trip with numerous picnics en route. 13 0 0 miles and 2 3 hours later we arrived to a warm welcome from A bel and his sister A nnabel, the owners of R io S afari. ll three outside in the sun. an you see them ingga 4 5 BULU-MATA & GIBBONS ON

RIEKE UPDATE By K ate Diver THE MOVE By Cat Talbot ak

For our two Sumatran orang-utans, Bulu-Mata and Rieke, this year has been full We have recently had a bit of a move around with some of our Golden-cheeked of changes. Bulu turned 2 on September 4th and Rieke is now 18 months old. In gibbons, largely due to the fact that our youngsters are growing up and it was June both Bulu and Rieke took their next step in the crèche. time for them to move on from their family groups. into the box, no problem. H e wasn’ t too happy when the slide was closed but soon accepted there was not much he could do about it. Primate Care S taff then got J ake and Z oey into their boxes. J ake was a little difficult but oey surprised us all by walking straight into her box though she has been ak moves very fast the most stubborn and difficult to train Mikado was then released from his box into a bedroom next door to Z ak and was he three boys are meeting together and learning ulu ieke getting a head for heights. each other’s boundries eo (front), ak (top), and very calm and well behaved. J ake and Z oey Mikado (back). were moved to the main house and with them ever since. The babies q uickly put into Mikado’ s old rooms. Finally, it was learned that shine reuires respect Teo’ s turn, he went into the box fairly well around food, much to R ieke’ s disgust as but getting him out was a little bit harder. she also shares shines enthusiasm in this H e simply stayed in the back of his box and area! The babies have spent most of their eo seemed a little shell shocked by the whole summer playing and wrestling with S ilvestre thing, but eventually he was brave enough ieke (left), Silvestre (centre), and ulu (right). and A wan, (who still visits a couple of days Mikado was hand-reared, having been to enter the house into his own bedroom. a week) enjoying the company and lots of orphaned at a French , and had been A ll three boys were given time to settle hen ulu and ieke first arried they hand-holds in all areas of the house to help sunshine. Both babies regularly climb to liing with Alex for the last years. n recent down and eat a bit of breakfast. They could shared a playroom alongside the bedrooms the babies negotiate it better. t is always a the highest point in the outside enclosure months, as he started to mature, Mikado see each other and had contact through in the back of the nursery, once they were concern for new babies, that in the event which, initially for the primate care staff, had become more territorial, displaying one-inch mesh. E veryone was fairly calm. competent climbers the pair moved into the older animal’ s play becomes a bit rough, was a little frightening to watch! often, and displacing A lex. A lex was We then decided to try the two smaller their bigger playroom at the front of the they are not only strong enough to deal with Bulu and R ieke are currently in the process nervous around him even though he was boys together. Z ak went straight to Teo and house next to the main play area. From here the situation but are also able to find their of meeting the remaining orang-utans, not aggressive, and this resulted in their seemed to be happy to have a new friend, we began Bulu and R ieke’ s introductions way back to a safer area of the house if they H siao-q uai and J in. H siao-q uai is the relationship deteriorating. We decided to eo also seemed uite interested. er to the existing members of the nursery, need to. dominant female in the nursery and her separate them. For A lex this has been bliss the next half an hour Z ak tried very hard starting with the younger individuals A wan t was then time to remoe the babies front son in can play ery rough. ntroductions and she is currently loving the peace and to get Teo to play and Teo did try but as and S ilvestre. Bulu and R ieke started to playroom and to introduce Bulu and R ieke with these two are currently only for short q uiet and can usually be found relaxing in Z ak became more boisterous Teo got a bit spend several days a week in the main to one of the adult females. Due to the periods with a view to extending the time her hammock. scared. We decided to give them a break nursery playroom and introductions with relationship S ilvestre has built up with the spent with them over the coming months. n two other groups we had eo and ak. as it had already been a very big day. The the others continued. When the weather babies and his strong bond with shine, nce comfortable with these two indiiduals Z ak, son to J ake and Z oey, is also 6 years next session was much the same with Z ak allowed, the babies were also given access she was the obious choice. shine and then ulu and ieke will be fully fledged old and like Mikado of an age where he having to learn to tone it down a bit to the outside tunnels from the playroom so S ilvestre were introduced to the babies members of our very special orang-utan needs to leave home. Teo is a 5 -year-old while eo builds some confidence that they got used to the entire house and in J uly of this year and have remained crè che. male who was born at the park to Peanut and trust. During these introductions the outside world. and Pung-Y o. Mikado was very calm and sat By summer it was time to challenge them We decided to try the three boys together watching from the other room and again. We began taking the babies into and the best place to do it was at Z ak’ s kept himself busy with lots of stuff the outside enclosure and then allowed house. This meant that J ake and Z oey to investigate in his new home. them to find the way there themseles from would move to the main gibbon house S o far the three boys have all indoors. As their confidence grew it wasnt where Mikado was and Mikado and Teo met each other, one by one, long before they were climbing high on the would move in with Z ak in his family home. but we have yet to put all three cargo nets and enclosure furnishings. Lots of planning was then involved with together. write as the The aim of introducing the infants to all modifications to the house to make it more R escue Chronicle is going areas of the main house and enclosure suitable for introductions, crate training for to press so watch this space was to ensure that when it was time to the gibbons who were moving, and general in the winter edition to see move in they would be safe but also that preparation for the move. if our bachelor boys stay they would feel secure as they did in their n the day of the moe first up was ikado, together and appreciate own play area within the house. The orang- his training paid off and he came straight each other’ s company! utan team fitted extra red hosing for extra Mikado 6 7 By Lisa MacDougall LOLA & ELLA’S LIFE CHANGING & Cat Talbot CATARACT OPERATIONS ola Ella

procedure was text book and she recovered Over the last year or so we have noticed Ella, one of our well in some darkened bedrooms for a female lar gibbons, also had a noticeable deterioration in couple of days. During this time, Lola’ s friend Peppa stayed with her to keep her company. her eyesight nce reunited with the group we saw a massive change in her behaviour. S he began S he clearly had cataracts in both eyes. A s to feed in the middle of the group and was E lla was starting to struggle moving around even grabbing food from in front of Bart! and finding food we decided to try cataract Lola was brilliant with her aftercare, allowing surgery on her left eye. The procedure eye drops to be applied twice a day for high would be the same as was done on value rewards - her favourites being rice We could see the replacement lense in ola’s eye Lola, but E lla’ s head is much pudding, custard, and coconuts which were smaller and therefore the surgery was through the microscope. kindly donated by Monkey World supporters. going to be more difficult. n the day of the N o longer needing eye drops, Lola is a new chimp. he is confident, playful and een has operation E lla was very co-operative and a new love for clicker training! she allowed us to put her pre-op eye drops sessions, she was not only presenting in and sat for a hand injected anaesthetic! her eyes to the ophthalmoscope for close he operation was difficult but went well, examination, but even holding her eyes although E lla took a long time to wake up. steady. Lola presented her eyes so When she did there was an instant and well, even the ophthalmic surgeon, obvious improvement. Within a few days indsay ray (centre) ohn ewis worked together to give ola sight back in her right eye. Lindsay Bray, was able to have lla was moing around with confidence, a good look at her eyes Living in Paddy’ s group, Lola is one of n order to make the surgery a success ola and assess them weeks her hand to eye co-ordination was excellent the lowest ranking females. S he is a kind had to begin training to allow her eyes to be before the surgery. and she was definitely back to her feisty old but shy indiidual. er the last year ola examined as well as allowing the Primate self. S he is also back to full wrestling and ollowing the operation, the tissue around began to develop cataracts in her right Care S taff to apply eye drops. Lola hasn’ t tickling sessions with her best friend Fox, Ella’s left eye was swollen and we could still The day of Lola’ s see the cataract in her right eye eye. At first the condition was mild but it always been the best at training, often operation, she waited so it really has given her a new lease of life. began to develop q uickly, which started to getting a little distracted by the other chimps in the house as the affect her behaviour. S he became more in the group. S o we weren’ t sure we would rest of her group went nervous around the group as she wasn’ t be able to achieve the big task of eye drop outside for breakfast. S he always able to see them approaching. application. Thankfully Lola proved to be a had done this every day for Luckily for Lola the cataracts were very bright student, taking to the eye training the weeks leading up to the treatable through surgery. perfectly. A fter a few weeks of daily training surgery and teaching her to hang back in the house whilst her group went out was an important part of her training. This meant that Lola was relaxed when Ella’s thick cataract wasn’t easy to break up she received her anaesthetic, making the day as stress free as possible.

Lola’ s surgery was pretty straight forward for her surgeon as chimpanzee eyes are the same Ella’s vision is obviously better after the operation as . The cataract is broken up with ultrasonic waves A huge thank you goes to Lindsay Bray and his team of specialist from a Phaco machine, nurses from the Harbour Hospital as well as the companies that it is suctioned out of the helped with the specialist Phaco machine and microscope that eye, and then a new lens ollowing the operation ola was happy to eat alongside others in addy’s group. is fitted inside the eye. olas allowed both Lola and Ella to see again. 8 9 ENDANGERED ASIAN SPECIES TRUST By Marina K enyon www.go-east.org E mail: enq uiries@ go-east.org A A A - Life can change so q uickly! – together stronger! Infant gibbons Vang and Hoi were The Education for Nature Vietnam transferred from Bu Gia Map rescue (ENV) gave us a call asking if we centre to Dao Tien in April 2016. could immediately receive seven conscated pygmy loris from the Both were being hand-reared in isolation, so it was crucial to start the socialisation process Environmental Police in Ho Chi as soon as possible. The aim was to get them Minh City. One had already died. ouise was comfortable in our loris rescue cage in a small social group with an adult female n arriing at the olice we found out and travelled well. to protect them, teach them, and watch over that the pygmy loris had been hunted in them. K hanh H oa province and were then sold to oi is as an oer confident young male, and a trader who brought them to H o Chi Minh little ang is ery insecure. er the past few City to sell via social media. E ach loris was months they have become best friends and bought for $ 10 from the hunter with the plan are now having short daily visits with K alle, to sell them for $ 5 0 each. a gentle adult female, who can watch over edro prepared for amputation. edro in his rehabilitation cage with The two young men, who have been large walkways. them in the trees. t is crucial that both young arrested for trading the loris, brought them gibbons are fast tracked into the trees. A s out so we could assess and place the loris gave them. A ntibiotics were given to Pedro her and when a new tenant moved in, she orphans they have already lived too close to in a special transfer cage before travelling to to see if we could save his leg, but with bone reported the sad loris to nternational Animal humans and both run high risk of being too ao ien. f the seen pygmy loris that were exposed it was not likely. The decision was escue A. hankfully the loris network is humanised for release back into the wild. We confiscated, four were already dead, one made to amputate his leg by the Pingtung strong and we soon heard at Dao Tien we hope K alle will provide them both with a good was very sick, one had a snare injury, and veterinary head, S avvy. The procedure had another pygmy loris to rescue! Louise gibbon role model so that they are confident only one appeared to have no obvious injury. went well but Pedro was anaemic, had an has passed all her health checks. We hope to restart their life up in the forest canopy. Vang and H oi are the best of friends. Vang’s home for her first 7 months. S adly, the very sick one did not make it but infected wound, and it was not going to be we will be able to release A rthur and Louise the two that survived we named A rthur and an easy recovery as he was going to have next year. A s for Pedro, we have a battle Pedro (with the snare injury). Both ate well to learn how to walk again. A s a wild loris, fighting off infection and he will hae to adapt ouise at ao ien, waiting to meet rthur overnight, enjoying the insects and gum we he does not like attention, and hisses even to his amputated limb and learn to travel well when we are offering him insects. H e tried enough for survival in the wild. climbing and reaching out to leaves, but in We hope that all our loris will make it to the first days he was falling a lot. he ao release back into the wild. We have reason Tien keepers q uickly got to work to give to be hopeful as female Freya, who we Pedro larger walkways with no clutter so he released with her twins, was missing an could move about more safely but as a wild arm. S he has adapted so well it was not a loris he wanted the clutter; he wanted the problem. A t the moment we are also radio- leaf to hide in! tracking a female named Trang. Trang, one For A rthur life is a little brighter, he passed month-post release, is doing well eating his health check and is eating well. We have flowers and drinking nectar through the a female, Louise, that was also rescued night. Thanks to Trang, and her partner Dan, from K hanh H oa province six months ago tolerating us following them at night, we are and the two can live together during their now fine tuning our captie diets to match rehabilitation. Louise was bought by a what we are learning from the wild and the Pedro and Arthur confiscation. Skinny Arthur looking foreigner in a bar in N ha Trang and when loris being rehabilitated on Dao Tien are now out of the fruit crate, s uashed in sitting on a dead they moved on they simply left Louise in getting more nectar. There is still so much to loris that did not survive the journey. the hotel. Luckily the hotel owners cared for learn about these elusive nocturnal ! Trang looking for flowers. oi and ang best of friends, now ready to meet alle

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Hananya House & Enclosure Glowing tea light holder 2017 special edition 30th anniversary EY W NK O with embossed O R L M D Mica (“Meetza”) is a female patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas) who arrived at the park on 01/09/11. We 19871987 estimate that she was born in 1992 and smuggledsmugg from the wild for the illegal pet trade in Slovenia. Mica 3 20201717 0 lived with another elderly female at the park for two years beforeAugust her companion passed 2017 away. She now Y S calendar & week to E A R lives with George, a ring-tailed lemur, and thisled odd from couple the wild really for seemthe illegal to enjoy pet tradeeach other’sin Slovenia. company. Mica Renovation design 7 view diary featuring Monday 8 Monkey World Opened 1987

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See our full range in the Monkey World Gift Shop, online at www.monkeyworld.org We have not stopped in our relentless campaign to provide our rescued primates as Rose-gold or by calling good a life in captivity as possible. This means going back to our older buildings and 01929 401004 Christmas jewellery set enclosures to update, refurbish, renovate, and expand; and the biggest push over Cuddly toys Baubles the last couple of years has been with our chimpanzee and orang-utans. With your help and support over the last few months, we have expanded and developed the climbing frames at both addys and ananyas enclosures. t is wonderful to see how excited both communities get with the increased and more diverse outside environments and it also gives these volatile apes more space to climb, let off MONKEY LIFE steam, and get away from each other when disputes break out. By S usan Tunstall nside ananyas house all the mesh which separates the from the Other work carried Here’s an update on what we have been Primate Care S taff, including bedrooms up to at Primate Planet Productions and tunnels, has been replaced to provide out this summer a cleaner and stronger home for the group ther obs that definitely needed We have had a busy summer completing the 20 new episodes of . ur uilding and aintenance team attention were the replacement of that make up series 9 of our long running show. Pick have now did a wonderful job planning for this build, as the waste disposal systems around conrmed that they will be showing 2 episodes per week starting the mesh cage that was put in for orang-utan Tuan’ s and the N ursery orang-utans, 6pm on Sunday 6th November; this means there will be brand babies Bulu Mata and R ieke was measured expansion and development of the new episodes to watch on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day! precisely, so that when the babies graduated indoor playroom and bedrooms at The new series is jam-packed with updates to living with the other nursery orang-utans MONKEY LIFE as they move to S pain Paulo’ s woolly monkey house, new from the park; from Bulu Mata and R ieke’ s the “ baby room” could be dismantled, … and so much more! tunnels at the top gibbon enclosure (to op gibbon house. integration into the orang-utan nursery cleaned and re-used at H ananya’ s house. We hope you enjoy help with the introductions, see page 7 ), to J ethro’ s introduction to Chloe, the saki A s always we try to waste nothing! the new series and and a new greenhouse roof for the café SERIES monkey from France. We have followed would love to hear patio. A lison as she continues to rescue primates your feedback. Y ou Caring for our rescued primates, our from the pet trade. Further afield, we can get in contact by Monkey World team, and guests that travelled to Dao Tien in Vietnam to document emailing us at info@ visit the park is a never ending pursuit. the ongoing work of E A S T and followed primateplanet.tv or via Without your help and support we NINE the orang-utans K ai, J oly and Lingga our Facebook page. would not be able to do as much as will be shown on Don’t forget Monkey Life series 1 - 8 DVD’s are available to purchase we do for our monkeys and apes. Pick from Sunday from the Monkey World giftshop and online at Amazon! Thank you so much. aulo’s inside woolly barn. For information or q uestions related to the Monkey Life TV series, please contact info@ primateplanet.tv. ew tunnel at ananya’s house. 6th November! 12 13 JIM CRONIN MEMORIAL FUND JIM CRONIN MEMORIAL FUND

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Full gallery of images available at www.jimcroninmemorialfund.org/ new-media-gallery/media-gallery/ 16 17 EY W K O As our 30th anniversary N R O L approaches we would D like all long-term M LETTER FROM HOW CAN supporters to send in 1987 2017 any photographs of Jim 3 and /or the park, for an 0 S anniversary album. THE EDITOR YOU HELP? Y E A R

There are many ways in which you can We are continuing to rescue more monkeys help us to rescue and rehabilitate more and apes that will need our full care and such as: goods We have been very busy this summer! ating primates. A ll donations go into a 10 0 % attention for many years to come. Please don p by ent Hel Equipm Baskets fund - NO ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS help with their on-going care by joining our ur thoughts are with the families and edium Small/M els ARE REMOVED. Monkey World is not a Primate Adoption Scheme for yourself, friends of supporters who have sadly Food & Tow Melons Blankets registered charity but we have established your family and friends. A s an adoptive passed away. We would like to remember Bedding Pomegranates Sacks the Jim Cronin Memorial Fund for parent you will receive a year’ s pass to essian Alice Robinson, Angela Krüger, Betty Blueberries H Primate Conservation and Welfare, UK the park, a photo of your monkey or ape, a Ropes ose Hind, Brenda Casey, Daniel Krumhorn, Thick Fire H Cranberries Black Registered Charity, No.1126939 and certificate, and the pe escue hronicle Red or Eileen Ellice, Elsie Wilson, Geoffrey Pineapples the Endangered Asian Species Trust, three times per year. Establish a legacy for angos Toys Colbran, Howard Churchill, Janet M Shell Toys in the Big Dog UK Registered Charity No.1115350, the long-term welfare of the primates and be Nuts Balls Maidment, Janet Scott, Janice Kneller, Feeding which supports endangered primate remembered in the park. Vegetables oys Joyce Bainbridge, Julie Ortiz, June Kong T rescue and rehabilitation in A sia. Garlic rugs Gordon, Katherine Boys, Mary Collins, Tub T Herbs Balls Rugby Without your help our rescue and Malcolm Dove, Marlene Lingwood, Supplements/other Rice Basketballs Maureen Manning, Norma Ashe, Norman Pure Baby rehabilitation work would not be Oil Capsules Cod Liver possible. f you are on holiday and Childs, Olive Childs, Pamela Marks, Oil Capsules Pauline Brown, Pearl Yark, Susan Smith, Primrose Vit C see a monkey or ape being used, Chewable 60mg abused, or neglected, please let us Winifred Vincent, Barbara Stevens, Oil Patricia & Jim Taylor, and Doreen Baby know. Take down all the details and Samways. They will all be dearly missed. try to get a photo – we follow up on as many reports as possible. Minister George Eustice, lison ronin, M ichard ra . Primate Planet Productions have been n addition to the list, there are many other working nonstop to get S eries 9 ready to items we need to care for our rescued A t Monkey World we are continuing to my MP, Richard Drax to discuss what can hand oer to ick . t is due to start at the primates. Please see our Amazon Wish build and refurbish our monkey and ape be practically done to improve the lives of beginning of N ovember and having seen List that has all kinds of different goods houses and enclosures in order to provide monkeys in the British pet trade. Mr E ustice the rough edits, can tell you it is a ery that we currently need. We also have an our rescued primates with as good a life has said that he will make changes to create good and exciting series. f you enoy the On-line Shop (http: //www.monkeyworld. as possible in captiity. n ietnam we are a register of pet monkeys, which will be the programs, please do let Pick TV know what orgonkeyorldnlineifthop Gift rescuing many more loris and gibbons, first step in improing the laws that are you think. They would like S eries 10 as well Catalogue full of monkey memorabilia and Primate Planet Productions are supposed to protect the monkeys. but will only continue to take the programs and ape accessories for anyone who loves filming more of our work for the next series er the summer we hae receied so if they are popular with their viewers. With primates. There are excellent ideas for of Monkey Life. The J im Cronin Memorial many generous donations for the monkeys so many rescues about to happen, the film M S eisure donated a rope bridge for the uniq ue Christmas gifts. Recycled fire hoses for our ape enclosures were Fund are also busy hosting educational and apes. We have had dog toys, baskets, crew will need to keep busy to keep up with small monkeys. donated from Hereford & Worcester fire services. courses for young and old alike as well as hoses, ropes, vitamins, peanut butter, baby the Monkey World team! fund raising and supporter’ s events. rice, fruit (dried and fresh), nuts, seeds, hae also been working nonstop to bedding and towels, cereal, and vegetables ACCOMMODATION NEAR MONKEY WORLD secure the rescue of several more apes sent or handed in. E very last bit is put to from three different countries, as well as use and helps us to provide the very highest two monkeys from E urope, and several standard of care for our rescued primates. White Horse Farm prosimians from abroad, and that is not Verwood Pet Shop continues to support 01963 210222 to forget the ever growing waiting list we our rescue work with a donation box, and we have to rescue more marmosets from have received donations in place of birthday the legal British pet trade. The number and anniversary presents, birthday presents of monkeys and apes that need our for the monkeys and apes, handmade help sadly continues to grow. Following greeting cards to sell in the shop, and the handing in of our pet trade petition, donations from a ladies night, and a raffle Self-catering accommodation with 110 ,7 6 4 signatures calling for the night. Particular thanks should go to Lois 4 cottages, farmhouse annex government to make the standards of care Lee who was particularly courageous and and lodge in rural Dorset. of privately owned monkeys the same as did a sponsored sky dive for Monkey World 2 acres, garden, paddock & it is for and wildlife parks, David and to Breeze Volkswagen who let us use duck pond. Pets welcome. Cameron asked the Minister in charge their beautiful and reliable van to transport Popular Inn 150 yards. to hear my concerns. met with George our orang-utans to S pain. A ll your help is Middlemarsh nr Sherborne DT9 5QN Eustice, Minister of the E nvironment and very greatly appreciated. www.whitehorsefarm.co.uk 18 19