The Monkey with a Bright Blue Bottom

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Steve Smallman has taken up writing his own stories after illustrating children’s books for over 30 years. My 4 year old brings it to me weekly as one of our nightly books and my preschool class got quite the giggle when I read it for our lesson about mandrills. Some primatologists speculate that this primate’s blue bottom is also valuable for attracting mates.

Like all of Congo’s remaining large mammals, these species are threatened by uncontrolled commercial bush meat hunting and habitat loss. The Rhesus Macaque, also known as the red bottom monkey, is a species of Old World monkey native to Asia. It transpired that the unusual monkey was well known to local people, but had never before been catalogued by scientists. YALE (US) — Scientists have found a new monkey species in remote central Congo, where bush meat hunting and habitat loss threaten their survival. Eppure il testo è abbastanza lungo, considerando poi che si tratta di una lettura in una lingua che non conoscono.

Now the crestfallen monkey looks just like a clown, with his red white and blue face (and bright blue bottom) - and to cap it all, all the other animals giggle to themselves whenever he passes by.

Pourquoi stories” are ones which give explanations for the origins of animals, and also some of their characteristics. And if we’re finding new species of primates, then who knows how many new species of small mammals or lizards or insects, just to name a few, might be out there.Though the inside pages are in very good state, that's true, I am a bit disappointed by the tattier looking cover. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. The Lesula is known to live exclusively within only 17,000 square kilometers of mature evergreen forests in DRC’s eastern central basin, between the middle Lomami and upper Tshuapa rivers. It is arguably the most colorful, with a trademark bright red and blue face and a very bright and colorful butt. The monkey appears to eat fruits and vegetation primarily, and to live both on the ground and in trees.

Read by Justin Fletcher (CBeebies Mr Tumble) and actress Sophie Thompson, this funny story is sure to delight toddlers everywhere. Steve is the author of Smelly Peter the Great Pea Eater (Winner of the Sheffield Children's Book Award 2009) and The Lamb Who Came for Dinner (Shortlisted for the Red House Children's Book Award and read by Meatloaf on CITV's Bookaboo). The new monkey was first sighted by scientists in 2007, when boffins found one being kept as a pet in the town of Opala in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The animals get their own back when they wake up and he ends up with a red white and blue face and a bright blue bottom which the kids found hilarious naturally!The story is good for KS1, to help them to identify colours, patterns and all the different animals. Species with small ranges like the lesula can move from vulnerable to seriously endangered over the course of just a few years.