Zara W BPS

Monkeys are consistently the bad guys, or silly guys in movies there are lots movie where someone is always trying to catch the monkey, or lock it up in a cadge this is a very popular thing to do in movies!  Sometimes it is the story line and it is about a monkey, but in a movie ‘Night At The Museum’  it is the case where the monkey is always tricking the night guard. Here are some movie that you might like to see what I am talking about:

• Dunston Checks In
• King Kong
• Land of the apes
• George of the Jungle 1 and 2
• Night at the Museum
• Cartoons - The Jungle book 1 and 2
• Pirate’s of the Caribbean 1,2 and 3 

Thre are many more and Maybe you could see then and then you would get what I mean by ‘Monkeys being the stars’

Once again another article in the paper about monkeys, This one contains a new baby girl monkey born on 25th of august . This money is a vervet  ( one I haven’t heard of! )  the monkey troop leader - Luway gave birth to Kaygee.These types of monkey come from South Africa, since Luway is the most highest ranked monkey in the group means Kaygee will be too. Vervet monkey are tiny when they are born and only weigh about 200g!  Soon Kaygee will start to move around and wont cling to her mother for ever, soon to start playing with other vervets in the group, like ’King of the castle’ . Kaygee bring the number of vervet monkey up to 20 at the zoo. 

Picture & Info From: The Geelong Advertiser Issue: 13.9.07

Just the other day mum was reading the paper and she showed me a picture of a monkey. ‘Kids outsmart Chimps: Study’
A new study has been shown that toddlers have better social skills than a chimp. Here is a copy of the article and you can really see all about it.  he main out line of the article is about testing monkeys and 2 year olds,  They are really metal skills they were trying to figure out like looking for ‘rewards’ and they were learning social learning skills,  But the monkeys seem to be less coordinated then a 2 years old and left the monkeys in the dark. A simple example that they did was opening a tube with a cap on it, as both the 2 years old and the monkeys watched, the 2 year olds managed to do it but, the monkeys were trying to to break it open. in the end it was 74% - 2 years old children  &  33% to monkeys, over all 2 year old children are mainly smarter then monkeys.

 

Info: The Geelong Advertiser. Issue: 8.9.07

My survey is coming along great and it has about 30 vote but it would be great if it had more! it was two months on the 29th of August since I had put my survey, thanks to everyone who has done it, I was going to close it but I decide to keep it up for another months, so if you get the chance do it i need all the votes I can get. So it will be interesting when the final score is in. 

Thanks  click on the link that says VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE MONKEY!

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