May 27 2008
Going nuts for monkey business
From Dorset Echo:
YEAR 2 pupils from Wool CE First School have been getting involved in some monkey business for their latest class project.
The children spent the day at nearby Monkey World as part of a project to help feed the primates at the centre.
The pupils brought with them giant papier maché nuts’ they had made themselves in class, which staff at the centre then filled with food for the monkeys.
The children got a close-up view as keeper Mike Colbourne and section head Lee Butler gave the nuts to the centre’s capuchin monkeys, which had recently been rescued from a laboratory in Chile.
They looked on as the monkeys ripped the nuts open to get at the treats inside, replicating skills that they would use to find food in the wild.
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