While in Weymouth me and my boyfriend took a trip to Monkey World, the ape Rescue Centre, It was one of my favourite days, all the monkeys were so sweet, and could stand there for hours watching them. Here are a few we say on our way around.

Here are the Woolly Monkeys and they were my favourite, they were just so crazy....... obviously this one like Richard, it must have reminded him of his daddy.

Monkey World had 10 Woolly monkeys and they live in 2 separate groups, these monkeys are part of the European Endangered Species Breeding Programme.

The oldest Woolly Monkey is Xusy at 34 years old.

Well the Orangutans were so cute, and fluffy. This one was defiantly the king of the swingers.

This little one Joly was in the nursery group with four other baby Orangutans, Hisao-Ning, A-Mei, Dinda and Lingga.

There was only one Orangutan when Monkey World first opened which was Amy, who had her first baby Gordan in 1997.

The Gibbons are the Noisy ones and can be heard all over the park.

There are 5 different species of gibbons at Monkey World - Siamang, Mueller's, Golden Cheeked, agile, and Lar Gibbons.

Most of the Gibbons at the park have paired up with others of there kind.

The Stump-tailed Macaque were rescued from a British lab were they were used for asthma research.

Poor little things were caged alone indoors, unfit and over weight.

Now they have a lovely home at Monkey world with the companionship of their own kind.

Well we all know this is a little baby Chimpanzee, Monkey world has the largest group of Chimps outside of Africa.

The Chimps are split into 3 main groups, each run by the dominant male Paddy, Hananya and Butch.

The Nursery (where this little one is from) is run by foster mum Sally and one armed Lulu (who was a bit shy so could not get a picture).

Now this little Monkey is a Marmoset, and I mean tiny. There are 15 Marmosets at Monkey World, Living in male, female and family groups.

The Marmosets were rescued from British labs and also the UK Pet trade.

They do require a special diet and when several of them went to Monkey World they had nutritional bone disease and poor social skills.

Well Monkey World was great and it was lovely to see all the different kind of monkeys, Monkey world was set up in 1987 (when I was born) by Jim Cronin to provide a stable home for abused monkeys and what a great job he did. the park is forever expanding and on our trip they were in the process of building another Baby Orangutan Nursery.

Its a great day out and I would recommend it to anyone.