She was, of course, referring to another weird monkey that I blogged about: Monkey-fish. ‘Some of you might remember a monkey who was here last year who was so popular that we couldn’t resist getting another,’ said Beth Wilkey, assistant curator at the RCP. I went along to the talks on Monday 24 June to see the most recent unusual monkey from the Horniman Museum on display at the RCP. Standing erect and staring out behind a glass case on the marble hall, this little chimp led an ‘exploration of ideas’ at the evening lectures ‘A race of mankind’: Chimpanzees and anatomy at the RCP. That is, until a small skeleton of a baby chimpanzee was crated from the Horniman Museum to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in London. The sound of a cracking twig and the rustle of leaves attracted his attention and, unnoticed by his mother, he clambered across the rocks and disappeared into the trees never to be seen again.
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Crouched high above the rest of the group, a baby chimpanzee watched his mother and aunts, and looked beyond his family to the darkness between the trees. On the hottest days the females lay on mossy rocks beside narrow streams to feel the cool spray of the water.
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They travelled through the trees and climbed down from branches to forage on the forest floor. Deep within the greenness of the rainforest, a very long time ago, lived a group of chimpanzees.