Catch Me a Colobus

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- United Kingdom
How it feels
A British naturalist narrates an expedition to Sierra Leone to capture colobus monkeys for his zoo. The series follows the process of finding and safely transporting the animals.
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What happens
Catch Me a Colobus is a television series narrated by Gerald Durrell, the well-known British naturalist and writer, which was shown on BBC children's television in 1966. It described an expedition to Sierra Leone to catch colobus monkeys for Durrell's zoo in Jersey. Durrell also wrote a 1972 book of the same name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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