5 fun facts about Primates

ZEKE · Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 436

Monkeys don't eat the peals of their bananas.

The male Howler monkey is the loudest land animal. It can be heard a distance of ten miles.

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

A mother monkey will grab a young monkey's tail to keep it from straying too far.

Monkeys do not catch colds.

Monkeytales · Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Virginia

How do you know that Monkeys don't catch colds? One of mine, has had a cold???? Just wondering
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ZEKE · Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 436

i just found all that info on websites. none of it is from personal experience or anything. just random stuff i could find online to start this section of the forum.

Amy · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 21

I wonder if that is true or not? We've had a couple sniffles but nothing else here except when Haley was very young, maybe 6 months old and she's 12 now. That was more flu like symptoms. Knock on wood- but I haven't seen many problems like that.
HA HA, I just learned how to add a pic in the last post so here's which one Haley is...but Peggy, you already knew which was Haley, which is Josh. Don't have any pics of Jake yet but will.
Didn't realize there was an actual primate section. I'm not very smart about the blogs and forums so will try to learn up and pay attention Confused

**Eric** · Site Admin Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 333 Location: Pa

We will make a section for every under the sun if people will put it to use. Smile

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