Monkey Day
As soon as I read monkey,
I thought of the very cool
proboscis monkey.
It’s one of the uglier monkeys,
in my opinion,
but still could be
one of my
favourites.
I went to National
Geographic
for some information.
It grows to 70cm and
males weigh about 23 kilograms.
A cool fact – t
hey live in groups called
harems!
A sad fact –
they are endangered
and only live
on the island of
Borneo.
Weird fact –
they eat their
fruit
before it is ripe!
The sugars in ripe fruit
ferment in their stomach
and
the bloating
will eventually kill them!
What makes the proboscis monkey
so ugly to me…
makes it super attractive
to the lady proboscis monkeys!
The males have the most
enormous nose ever!
It’s
huge!
The lady monkeys love the nose!
The bigger – the better!
The harem has a
dominant male
and up to seven females.
While the proboscis monkey
is a great
swimmer,
they need to work
on their diving!
They swing through the trees
and
belly-flop
themselves into rivers.
To swim faster than
the local crocodiles,
they developed webbing
between their hands and feet!
Weird! …and yet…
so cool!
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