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 * by: Nick Heredia period -6**

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===Why do monkeys look and sound wierd? King Kong was a weird monkey, he did weird things. monkeys are the most closes you can get to being like us. Like they have thumbs, and they know sign launguage. When you go to the zoo and you see a gorilla throwing poop, why do you think they acted like that?===

===Lucy was the first man/monkey alive. Lucy was also known as a homo sapien. She died of natural causes, when she died she fell in a body of water and the layers of sand that covered her bones made them strong. whaen the body of water dried up the bones were shown, and it rained the bones were uncovered but with all the sand blowing in the wind covered them again. Over the years after Lucy the shape of our body changed and insread of leaning forward we stand up straight.===


 * Today there are a lot of monkeys, like the howler monkey, the gorilla, the pale-headed saki. How many species of Monkeys are there? Well there are 264 species known to man. Do you think people have monkeys as pets or used in space or laboratories? Well it is true, sometimes they may be used for the disables. People known as "Helping Hands" have been training capuchin monkeys to serve the people with spinal cord injures. The monkeys that serve have a lot of training before helping the need. They do stuff like microwave food, clean the needs face, open bottles for them.

page 4- Cupachin Monkeys

Can you believe that these types of monkeys help people. They're probably bodyguards. There homeland is Central America and South America. There legs, tail, and arms are a darkly colored brown or black, the face and chest are white colored, But the top of the head is black. The tail is a long as there body which can reach to 12-22 inches, they highest weight is 2 lb. Brain mass is 35- 40g. Which means they are very smart, even though they have a midday nap.

The whole day they search for food, at night the monkeys are wedged in between tree branches. The predators are large falcons, cats, and snakes. The Cupachin monkeys are omnivores so they eat fruits, nuts, and seeds, but they do tend to eat insects, spiders, and bird eggs. They get crabs and break the shell of shellfish on a rock, they get them because they live near water.

Page 5- Apes

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 * Barbary Apes, they may have the word ape in their name but the they aren't really apes. Apes are good tree climbers. Most ape species are rare or almost extinct. The word "ape" use to mean a tailless non-human primate. Apes have long arms to climb through trees. The largest gibbon (a small ape) weighs up to 50lb, the chimpazene weighs up to 88- 142.**


 * Page 6- Gorilla**


 * Gorillas are ominivares, and they are the largest primate. They are inhabited in the forests of Africa. Since we are still debating about how speices of them are, they are nw divided up inyo two groups. They are the closes monkey to human besides of the chimpazenes. Gorillas adult height is 5ft 5in- 5ft 9in. They move by walking on the knucles and feet which is called knucle walking. Gorilla that live in the east have a darker color then the ones that live in the west. Gorllas spend most of the day eating and they are omnivores and eat seed, fruit, and nuts. But they eat insects to.**


 * Page 7- Conclusion



There is a lot of things monkeys do like help, pick each others head, and even be used in space. But they are the closes to human then any other animal there is. When gorillas throw poop, why do you think they do that. Thanks for reading my project i hoped you liked it. Hoed you learned from mine, because i did.

Page 8- Bibliography

I got my information from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey I used it for my gorilla, capuchin, apes.**