Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary: Pair give refuge to unwanted primates

BBC News 25 December 2012 Last updated at 01:48 ET

The Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary opened 14 years ago to house seven unwanted chimpanzees

As most people tuck into their Christmas dinner, Jan and Graham Garen will be too busy to feast on turkey - they will be feeding around 80 hungry apes and monkeys.

Christmas Day will be business as usual for the husband and wife team who 14 years ago took in seven chimpanzees that nobody wanted when the Penscynor Wildlife Park near Neath closed.

As a teacher and engineer they had no experience of looking after primates, but they could not bear the thought of the chimps being shot, which would have been their fate.

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