Gorillas in my midst
When I was younger I was lucky enough to spend the summer working at Monkey World in Dorset. For those not familiar with it it's a rescue centre that doubles up as a tourist attraction. A zoo with just monkeys (they're the best anyway) in it, basically.

Have a nose if you like, I'd thoroughly recommend it... www.monkeyworld.org/home.php

Anyway, I loved it. Possibly the best summer I ever had. As you can probably imagine, feeding time was the highlight of the day. I got to feed them all. You have no idea how massive gorillas are up close. Or Orangutans for that matter. Even the chimps could look pretty imposing.
You'd lug round tons of food, and it was, though rewarding, bloody hard work.

That's why my absolute favourites were the Lar Gibbons. They were so easy to feed. They were my narrowest apes.
(R. Jimlad twitter.com/sirmarkymark, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 18:23, 5 replies)

Apes are not monkeys.
(Apyadg, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 22:15, closed)

Ookaaaay... Thanks for that.

(R. Jimlad twitter.com/sirmarkymark, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 23:24, closed)

I shall ignore the pun
and simply agree that Monkey World is splendid. We saw the chimps at feeding time and one of them was trying to pick up all of the food at once and run off with it. His arms weren't big enough and he kept dropping it. I laughed.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 10:03, closed)

Oh yeah
I wasn't being flippant about that bit. Monkeyworld's ace!
(R. Jimlad twitter.com/sirmarkymark, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 17:18, closed)

Me and mrs Fronds were there Friday
it was lovely. She insists in calling it Monkey Island when she's telling people about it.

Baby monkeys too - a chimplet and a minirangutan were happily enjoying the occasional sunshine. Dawwwww!
( Fronds are waving gently on, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 20:25, closed)