14 DAY TRIAL // About two years ago, a baby chimpanzee named Oscar woke up to find that he no longer had a mother. Had it not been for alpha male Freddy's being willing to take him under his care, odds are that Oscar would not have managed to survive in the wilderness.
The story of this unusual adoption is detailed in Disney's new documentary, Chimpanzee, which is expected to hit cinemas this coming May.
According to Daily Mail, the people who worked on piecing together this documentary admit that Oscar and Freddy's story is the first of this kind they have ever come across in their entire careers.
“It was pretty clear that the story of Oscar and Freddy was going to touch other people as much as it touched us. If we’d scripted it, no one would have believed us. It was the best storyline we never wrote,” film Co-Director Mark Linfield said.
“It was very moving to see Oscar’s longing for some sort of protection and closeness and the tenderness that Freddy showed him. It was very unusual,” he later added.