Monkeying around.. This is just too funny. The local zoo has a new habitat for a pair of lions who have just arrived.

Monkeying around..

This is just too funny. The local zoo has a new habitat
for a pair of lions who have just arrived. In an article
in today's Globe, one of the zookeepers is relating a story
as an example of how you never really know what to expect
from a habitat until the animals have a chance to live
in it;

"Several years ago, the Baltimore Zoo decided to encamp
colonies of tiny Green Monkeys and large Drill Baboons
together on an island, the theory being that the
primates would stay put because neither could swim.

"But the morning after the exhibit opened, zoo officials
found little Green Monkeys off the island and wandering
around the zoo. The next two mornings, it was the same
thing. Finally a vigilant keeper discovered the problem
stemmed less from cage design than monkey manners. The
baboons, unwilling to share food, were grabbing the
Green Monkeys by their tails and hurling them like
Olympic hammer throwers off the island durning suppertime.

"The monkeys were no worse for their daily shuttle. But
the colonies were separated anyway. The island is now
a penguin reserve."


Swing, swing, swing, *toss*. Wheeeeeee! :)