Episode guide
Monkey Life: Season 14
20 episodes · premiered Apr 16, 2022
Return to Monkey World in Dorset for more emotional stories, following the lives of the rescued primates at the centre and their carers.
- Episode 1: Episode 1 Apr 16, 2022 · 30m In the first episode of the new series of Monkey Life, concern grows for chimp Kalu, who was recently rescued from South Africa. Alison calls in two consultant surgeons to operate on Kalu…
- Episode 2: Episode 2 Apr 16, 2022 · 30m The park is closed due to the latest lockdown but while visits from the public have had to stop, the need to rescue primates hasn’t. Alison travels to Liverpool, to rescue a family of…
- Episode 3: Episode 3 Apr 23, 2022 · 30m Chimp Kalu, struggles to recover from her recent surgery, and despite the best efforts of the team takes a turn for the worse leading to a difficult decision for Alison. There’s new names…
- Episode 4: Episode 4 Apr 23, 2022 · 30m Concern is growing about one of the park’s older chimps in the bachelor group, high-ranking Jestah has developed a sinister looking lump on his lip. Wildlife vet John Lewis examines…
- Episode 5: Episode 5 Apr 30, 2022 · 30m It’s an anxious time for Alison and the primate care staff, as chimp Jestah goes under the knife following a diagnosis of mouth cancer. Wildlife vet John Lewis and local vet Dave Harding…
- Episode 6: Episode 6 Apr 30, 2022 · 30m Vet Cesar Sastre is at the park, as marmoset Bart gets a health check and a vasectomy. While the primate care team serve the capuchins a muddy breakfast to see if they demonstrate a…
- Episode 7: Episode 7 May 7, 2022 · 30m Stumpie Freddy has a dental issue, which proves taxing for wildlife vet John Lewis. Busy-body lemur Kaiyah, who was removed from the huddle while recovering from nasty injuries, is…
- Episode 8: Episode 8 May 7, 2022 · 30m At the park’s hospital it’s all systems go for vet Cesar Sastre and the team, with a patient list including marmoset Jenny, capuchin Abby and squirrel monkey Lopez. While at the capuchin…
- Episode 9: Episode 9 May 14, 2022 · 30m There’s tragic news for the park, Alison and Jeremy pay tribute to their colleague highly respected wildlife vet John Lewis, who has passed away. Chimp Jestah is back outside with his…
- Episode 10: Episode 10 May 14, 2022 · 30m Alison’s on an emergency mission to the Midlands to collect Geoffroys marmoset, Gizmo, who had been separated from his sibling and now lives with a family who are concerned for his…
- Episode 11: Episode 11 May 14, 2022 · 30m Wildlife vet, Nic Masters and local vet, Dave Harding are called to the park due to serious concerns for the health of elderly chimp Zoe, one of the original nine chimps. Sadly Alison has…
- Episode 12: Episode 12 May 21, 2022 · 30m Female orang-utans, RoRo and Lucky are reintroduced in the hope they can learn to live together, but immediately come to blows. Big orang male, Tuan has to step in and separate them while…
- Episode 13: Episode 13 May 21, 2022 · 30m It’s a huge day for the chimp team, after weeks of meticulous planning two of the park’s chimpanzee groups are about to swap homes and enclosures. It’s the biggest house swap in the park’s…
- Episode 14: Episode 14 May 21, 2022 · 30m Alison and Jeremy undertake one of the park’s biggest primate rescues in recent years, from a zoo in Mid Wales who have been forced to rehome some of their animals. While back at the park…
- Episode 15: Episode 15 May 28, 2022 · 30m Alison and Jeremy are in Mid Wales to collect five monkeys from a zoo, two patas monkeys and two capuchin monkeys that are destined for Monkey World. While a vervet monkey is to be…
- Episode 16: Episode 16 May 21, 2022 · 30m Concern grows at the park as the effects of the global pandemic continue to bite, everyone has to muck in as staff are forced to isolate. Alison is concerned, not only for the parks staff…
- Episode 17: Episode 17 May 28, 2022 · 30m Alison comes up with a plan to collect Dodger, a capuchin monkey in desperate need of rehoming. Wildlife vet, Nic Masters is at the park to perform health checks on the capuchins that have…
- Episode 18: Episode 18 May 28, 2022 · 30m Alison and Jeremy travel to Kent on a rescue mission, and come up with a cunning plan to box up Dodger, the capuchin. Back at the park, the team need to move recently arrived capuchins…
- Episode 19: Episode 19 Jun 4, 2022 · 30m Jimmy, one of the park’s original nine chimps isn’t well so local vet, Dave Harding is called in to examine him and it’s not good news. It’s an emotional time as the team have to say…
- Episode 20: Episode 20 Jun 4, 2022 · 30m It’s a momentous day for Alison, as legislation banning the legal trade of pet primates in England is announced at the park. Marmoset Rattler returns to Monkey World to be paired with…