Chimpweek

[Tinkerbelle]

Sorry to start, yet another, thead about something on the TV ....... but has anyone watched tonights Chimpweek at 7pm on BBC 1? I have missed it and would like to know, did the twins get back to their mum and want happened to Frodo, he was looking so ill last night?

[grannyclaret]

sorry tinks ,,i am lost on this one.....

[Tinkerbelle]

It's a documentary on BBC1 Granny. A camera crew followed a group of wild chimps around the African jungle for 7 years. They have given all the chimps names, the twins were born to a mother chimp called Gremlin, shes a wonderful mother but left her daughter chimp looking to the youngsters last night but she let them get lost, it finished on a cliff hanger with the twins spending their first night alone in the jungle, I do hope they did survive.

Frodo was the big dominant male, a bit of a bully really but kept his group in order. Last night he'd got really ill from a chest infection and it showed him a shadow of himself all thin and not really much chance of gaining leadership back. I just wanted to know what had happened to him too.

[garinda]

I was told to watch it because it was really interesting. I caught some of it tonight, and it was. I don't know what happened to the twins but they were up a tree eating flies, before scampering back down to their parent.

It ended with the worst fire in Tanzania's recent history quickly approaching the colony.

Tune in to see what happens next.

They should have ended the programme like they do Eastenders.

The only difference being this really was a cliff hanger, and it has better actors.

[Tinkerbelle]

lol! Cheers for that Rind

It is interesting. The documentary has managed to hunamise the chimps so much it is like an edition of Eastenders, besides the better actors and more gripping cliff hangers, the cast is better looking and theres less fights than in Walford.

[garinda]

We are so lucky. Years ago to find out about things we would never have seen in the wild, we could have read a book, and if we were lucky might have seen a photograph.

Through the much aligned box in the corner of the room, we can watch fasinating creatures in far flung parts of the world at close quarters.

Brilliant television.

[Tinkerbelle]

It's truly beautiful TV, to get so close and see these animals at their most natural, no cages or training is amazing, well worth the seven years getting these pictures to broadcast.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle

It's truly beautiful TV, to get so close and see these animals at their most natural, no cages or training is amazing, well worth the seven years getting these pictures to broadcast.

Much more interesting to watch than the monkeys wittering on about passwords and handbags.

[Tinkerbelle]

Originally Posted by garinda

Much more interesting to watch than the monkeys wittering on about passwords and handbags.

lol! I'm hiding in here with the monkeys then I don't say something I'll regret

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle

lol! I'm hiding in here with the monkeys then I don't say something I'll regret

I think I'll stay with you.

If only your neighbour hadn't cut down that tree, we could have climbed it and fed each other flies.

[Tinkerbelle]

Originally Posted by garinda

I think I'll stay with you.

If only your neighbour hadn't cut down that tree, we could have climbed it and fed each other flies.

And thrown nuts at Less over the wall

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle

And thrown nuts at Less over the wall

I'm saying nothing.

I'll just enjoy my banana.

[Tinkerbelle]

lol! Probably for the Best when he's throwing his alfa-male weight about sticking his baboon a*se in the air for show

[garinda]

Every channel has monkeys on this week.

Is it National Simian week?

Is that why the Goodies had a whole night at Christmas?

Has Do, Do, Do The Funky Gibbon, been re-released?

[chav1]

ime sorry i must have misread the title of this thread

does anyone know when gimp week is starting