By Matt Walker Editor, Earth News The new pair are given several
days to get used to each other A gibbon dating agency is helping
to reintroduce once captive apes into the forests of southeast
Asia. Unusually among apes, a male and female gibbon will mate
and remain faithful to one another for life, reaffirming their
bond with complex mating songs. But across southeast Asia,
gibbons are captured and illegally held as pets. Now one
conservationist is returning these apes to the wild, by first
rescuing them, and then using his match-making skills to pair
them up. The story of the gibbon-dating agency is told by the
programme "Radio Gibbon", broadcast as part of the BBC wildlife
series "Natural World". The agency is run by Chanee Brule, a
29-year-old Frenchman who fell in love with gibbons after seeing
them in a zoo as a child. Brule runs a sanctuary in Kalimantan
He studied the apes from a young age, producing a guide to their
captive care aged 13. Today, he runs a gibbon sanctuary in a
region of Borneo called