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Article: Days Out: Trentham Monkey Forest, Staffordshire
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- May 15, 2007
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The industrial landscape of the Potteries is an unlikely place to
find a forest full of monkeys. But beyond the defunct pot banks and
coal mines there are plenty of green spaces, not least the pleasure
park, Trentham Gardens. At the southern end of that estate, 60 acres
have been enclosed to provide a home for 140 Barbary Macaques. There
they roam in freedom, interacting at will with the humans who pay to
get a closer look by following a trail amid the trees where the
monkeys play. It's an extraordinarily intimate experience, enhanced
by the presence of knowledgeable staff who roam the grounds to offer
visitors an insight into the monkeys' behaviour and reveal some of
the cheeky ...