Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Monkey World is a 65-acre (0.26 km²) ape and monkey sanctuary and zoo near Wool, Dorset, England. Set up in 1987 by the late Jim Cronin, and later operated by both him and his wife Alison, it was originally intended to provide a home for abused chimpanzees used by Spanish beach photographers, but is now home to many different species of primates. The facility made the news in January 2008 with what The Guardian called "the world''s biggest rescue mission of its kind," when it saved 88 capuchin monkeys from a laboratory in Santiago, Chile, where some of the animals had been kept in solitary cages for up to 20 years. The operation was carried out at the request of the laboratory, and with help from the Chilean Air Force, who flew the animals to Bournemouth airport with special permission from the British government.