Catch Me a Colobus - Misplaced Pages

British children's television series

Catch Me a Colobus is a television series narrated by Gerald Durrell, the well-known British naturalist and writer, which was shown on BBC children's television in 1966.

It described an expedition to Sierra Leone to catch colobus monkeys for Durrell's zoo in Jersey.

Durrell also wrote a 1972 book of the same name.

References

"Catch Me a Colobus: Part 5: Monkee Clever Too Much. First broadcast: Tue 22nd Mar 1966". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 16 February 2024.

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Books written	The Overloaded Ark Three Singles to Adventure The Bafut Beagles The New Noah The Drunken Forest My Family and Other Animals A Zoo in My Luggage The Whispering Land Menagerie Manor The Donkey Rustlers Birds, Beasts, and Relatives The Talking Parcel The Garden of the Gods The Mockery Bird The Fantastic Flying Journey The Fantastic Dinosaur Adventure
TV series	Catch Me a Colobus The Stationary Ark Ark on the Move
Dramatisations	My Family and Other Animals (TV series, 1987) My Family and Other Animals (TV film, 2005) The Durrells (TV series, 2016–2019)
Durrell family	Lawrence Samuel Durrell (father) Louisa Durrell (mother) Lawrence Durrell (brother) Margaret Durrell (sister) Jacquie Durrell (1st wife) Lee McGeorge Durrell (2nd wife)
Institutions founded	Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust EcoHealth Alliance Durrell Wildlife Park Les Augrès Manor Mauritian Wildlife Foundation Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group Wildlife Preservation Canada World Conference on Breeding Endangered Species in Captivity as an Aid to their Survival

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