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Airdate: My Wild Affair

Meet Chantek, the orangutan raised as a human child on an American university campus.

2014-03-30_1251SBS begins a new 4 part nature series this Saturday night.

My Wild Affair looks at some of the rare relationships that cross the divide between our species and provide a glimpse of the inner life of the creatures who share our world.

It begins with “The Ape Who Went to College”

This episode tells the incredible story of Chantek, the orangutan raised as a human child on an American university campus during the ’70s and ’80s. Taught to communicate through sign language, he is now living among his own kind at Zoo Atlanta, although he describes himself as an “orangutan person.”

Saturday, 12 April at 7.30pm on SBS ONE

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