Zara W BPS

A few years ago my sister went to Ghana in west Africa to teach for 3 months and, every weekend they would go explore or they would go on a boat and see things.  On weeked I think is was during the school holidays they were staying at this little house sort of thing but not to fancy! They had put there breakfast all together (well that was a bad Idea) soon to realize there was a baboon in there little house stealing and eating all of there breakfast. (Poor them ) so they didn’t have any breakfast! But she managed to take some photos so I hope you enjoy looking at an EVIL baboon!

Next time guard you food you never know you might not have breakfast if a evil monkey comes to eat your food.

Here is a picture of me and you can see me yes me hanging with a monkey at the Melbourne ZOO! I hope you enjoy  looking at it. And for those of you who aren’t at Bellaire here is a picture of me to see who is writing this GREAT Blog ( No Need To Brag ) This is when Issy (http://www.dixisabps.globalstudent.org.au) went to the Zoo. ENJOY  :mrgreen:

only Joking it was photo shopped ENJOY

Did you know that moneys are the closest thing to humans if you look at there bones and body structure compared to ours they are really quiet the same.

DID YOU KNOW?????

Monkeys are 97% HUMAN. So ask the question is you brother a monkey

My Mum My Auntie & Issy ( http://www.dixisabps.globalstudent.org.au/ ) & ME. Went to the Melbourne Zoo it was really big and it  had lots of animals I thought it was really cool.

Where do I start the zoo was massive. We started by walking through the Gorilla Forest and that had:  Gorillas, Tree Top Monkeys & Apes, Mandrills & Hippos. I got  lots of pictures and movies and they will be posted soon.

Next to the  Africa (sort of) part in there we saw a massive elephant and the zoo keeper took a close up picture for us and and that was really cool! there we also Bugs & Butterflies and there was heaps of them and it was really hot in there home! We saw : Tigers, Pelicans, Elephants, Birds, Orang-utans and there was  a show and they are really massive, Also their feet look like hands and their hands look like feet.  I thought there was heaps and heaps of monkeys and they were really cool.

Off to everywhere else there was so many different animals and they were: Giraffes, GIANT Tortoises, Lions, Wolfs, Zebras, Baboons, Red Pandas, Penguins. There were so many animals at the zoo and some were really ugly or some where cute!

At the end of the day they had a picture place and I wasn’t sure what it was but you could get you picture photo shopped into a picture with an animal and I got mine done hanging from a rope with a monkey and it is so cool. I shall show you soon.  So if you get the chance go to the Melbourne Zoo it is so much fun and don’t forget you camera!!! I also saw baby animals and they were the cutest!

Gorillas are really big in fact the biggest primate. The gorilla moves by walking on it knuckles. Gorillas are omnivores.

Adult males range in height from 165-175 cm and in weighs about 140–200 kg ( Adult females are often  an average of  about 140 cm  tall and 100 kg.  Gorillas live in tropical forest. Mainly they like anywhere that has plants.

Gorillas have 32 teeth - the same number as humans. Gorillas have large strong teeth .Gorillas have two full sets of teeth during their lifetime, similar to humans. The first set (like baby teeth) is lost and then replaced by their permanent set as adults.

Info & Picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla,  http://www.swbg-adventurecamps.com/animal-info/info-books/gorilla/physical-characteristics.htm

This monkey is a bit different. It is an Old World Monkey!

This type of monkey belong to the Langur group. It was named after a large, forest monkey in Southeast Asia. It has short grey fur marked with red and white. They are about 10kg and a female about 8kg. Lives in forest in Vietnam, Loas & Cambodia.

There isn’t very much Info on the doc Monkey but I hope you got a couple of facts out of that.

 Info From: Britannica CD Rome, http://www.monkeymatters.com/langur.pdf

 Picture From: http://www.cabrillo.edu/~crsmith/monkeycomparisons.html

Here is my 4th Mind Map I hope you have learnt as much as I have with monkeys.

Enjoy, Maybe you could teach me sometings that I dont know!!!

Monkeys sometimes will have rabies but not always. If a person is scratched or bitten by a pet monkey the owner might have to kill it or get it tested.  SO just be careful the next time you see a wild monkey (not in the zoo) it could have RABIES!

This info is from a U.S Site: http://www.petmonkey.info/facts.htm

I thought I should do something different so here are some jokes. I hope they make you laugh

Q: How do you train King Kong? A: Hit him with a rolled up newspaper building.  

Q: Where do monkeys pick up wild rumors? A: Over the apevine.  

Q: What do you do with a blue monkey? A: Cheer it up!   

Q: What did the banana say to the monkey? A: Nothing. Bananas don’t talk!   

Q: What do monkeys do for laughs? A: They tell people jokes!   

Q. What do you get when you cross a gorilla and a parrot? A. Polly wants a cracker NOW!!!  

Q. What do you call a monkey at the North Pole? A. Very lost!  

Q. What did the monkey say when he cut off his tail? A. It won’t be long now.  

Q. Why did the monkey cross the road? A. Because it was the chicken’s day off!  

Q. What do you call a 2,000 pound gorilla? A. Sir  

Q. Why did the chimpanzee cross the road? A. Because he had to take care of some monkey business!  

Q. What is smarter than a talking monkey?
A. A spelling bee! 

Q. If you were in a jungle by yourself and a gorilla charged you, what would you do?
A. Pay him. 

Q. If twenty monkeys run after one banana, what time is it?
A. Twenty after one! 

Jokes From: http://www.monkeymatters.com/jokes.htm

This is another mind map and it is some new thing I was to learn about! I have learnt heaps about monkeys. I am sort of running out of ideas. I thought about it and then I came up with some more ideas and some questions, that I would like  to find out about monkeys.