The Lost Monkeys of Abkhazia

A new Dutch film, The Lost Colony, looks at the once-famous primate research centre in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, where in Soviet times, scientists apparently tried to create a cross-breed hybrid of monkeys and humans. The centre, like much of Abkhazia, was destroyed during the civil war in the early 1990s. A few people believe that some of the monkeys, who fled like so many human refugees, are still hiding somewhere in the woods, and they even leave food out for them, hoping they will someday return.