Jane Lynch (Glee) narrates this animal documentary series set at the Chimp Haven sanctuary in Louisiana. The facility is home to 30 families of chimps, and each episode of Meet the Chimps focuses on a few individual chimps within the families. The chimp families captured on camera experience some of the same reality-show-style drama recognizable in their human counterparts. Newcomer chimps have to learn to make friends, chimps are constantly jockeying for a higher social status in their family, and young chimps have to learn how to become more independent. The chimps' veterinarians and caretakers help explain more about the social dynamics of the families. The series shows all the elements of these chimps' lives in captivity -- the highs, the lows, and the silly.
