WARNING: Due to the significant cuteness overload throughout this trailer you may experience the following side effects:

A strange tightening of the throat. The need to swallow hard. The sudden formation of a film of water across both eyes and a fuzzy feeling across your teeth.

This is the trailer for Disneynature’s Chimpanzee a documentary which records the plight of a three year-old chimp  who is suddenly left an orphan and is then raised by a single older chimp. Directed by Alistair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, who’s collective work includes Blue Planet, Deep Blue and Planet Earth the entire documentary catches a remarkable story shot on the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forest.

Chimpanzee will be released in cinemas on April 20th, Earth Day, 2012.

*rings out handkerchief into bucket*