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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

Chimp Crazy review – like Tiger King for apes … but way more bleak

Tonia Haddix and Tonka the chimpanzee.
‘He loved me as much as I loved him.’ Tonia Haddix and Tonka the chimpanzee. Photograph: AP

“Monkey love is totally different to love for a child … When you adopt a monkey the bond is much, much deeper … A human child is meant to grow up and bond with other people in society. But not chimpanzees. Their mother is their whole life.”

So says chimp devotee Tonia Haddix at the start of the documentary series Chimp Crazy. We meet her (human) son later on. He seems … generously resigned.

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