Orangutan Jungle School
TV Show · Documentary

The Channel 4 series `Orangutan Jungle School' is a docu-soap, filmed at Nyaru Menteng in Borneo, Indonesia, and follows the antics, triumphs and tragedies of a group of orphaned orangutans. These orangutans had been displaced due to forest destruction, separation from their mothers, or kept illegally as pets. The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation manages the primate rehabilitation project at Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue Centre, and the series follows the group of orangutans as they are progressing through a forest school system where they will learn to fend for themselves in an already fragile ecosystem.

2018 · 46m
Starring Rebecca Parr, Keeley Hawes, Laura Shavin

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    And So It Begins...
    Introducing some of the big characters including `class clown' Valentino and `Big Boy' Beni. There is also an emergency arrival with teenage mum Clara and her baby Clarita and vets round up the older orangutans, who are now ready to be released.
    45 min
  • EPISODE 2
    Movin' On Up
    `Class Clown' Valentino is busy showing off, and the staff decide that `Big Boy' Beni needs to lose weight. Teenage mum Clara and her baby Clarita face a return to island life and they welcome a new pupil: Alba, the only reported albino orangutan.
    46 min
  • EPISODE 3
    King Kasper
    Vet Arga rescues an orphaned one-year-old orangutan with a broken wrist. Meanwhile, Beni attempts Jungle School's biggest ever banana heist and five adult orangutans are released into the wild.
    45 min
  • EPISODE 4
    The Misfits
    Valentino, Yutris and the rest of group two have fun as they visit group three's flooded classroom; three quarantine infants get the results of their TB tests; the residents of Bangamat Island do not welcome newcomers leading to a confrontation.
    46 min
  • EPISODE 5
    A Whole New World
    Moving day arrives for the nursery school kids, Beni gets a beating from a bully, the socialisation cage has a new queen, and dominant male Pujon is still on a time-out after attacking Alba but is allowed a second chance to bond with his rival.
    46 min
  • EPISODE 6
    Weighs and Means
    Beni faces a day of reckoning as all the forest school students are held back for a weigh-in, and Alba is back in isolation after being diagnosed with typhoid.
    40 min

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Cast & Crew

  • R‌P
    Rebecca Parr
    Narrator
  • Keeley Hawes
    Narrator
  • L‌S
    Laura Shavin
    Narrator
  • S‌B
    Simon Brown
    Producer
  • D‌O
    Dominic Ozanne
    Producer
  • J‌L
    Jago Lee
    Producer
  • J‌C
    Judith Curran
    Producer

About

Orangutan Jungle School

Documentary

The Channel 4 series `Orangutan Jungle School' is a docu-soap, filmed at Nyaru Menteng in Borneo, Indonesia, and follows the antics, triumphs and tragedies of a group of orphaned orangutans. These orangutans had been displaced due to forest destruction, separation from their mothers, or kept illegally as pets. The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation manages the primate rehabilitation project at Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue Centre, and the series follows the group of orangutans as they are progressing through a forest school system where they will learn to fend for themselves in an already fragile ecosystem.

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Released
2018
Rated
PG
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English (United Kingdom) (CC)

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