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I walkedwas walkinghad walkedI don't know in the zoo when an animal drew my attention. The staff who took care of these Geladas asked me : 'Have you ever seendid you ever seehave you never seenI don't know such an animal?' He added : 'do you want me to give youdo you want that I give youI don't know any information?' It is amazing is itisn'tisn't itI don't know ? It is called Gelada, closer to a chimpanzee than a baboon. Before living essentially in a zoo, this robust gelada used to liveused to livingused livingI don't know on the highlands of Ethiopia. The male weighsis said weighingis said to weighI don't know up to 20 kilos. It ishashadI don't know a dark lengthened face with a short muzzle. It is also astonishedalso is astonishingis also astonishingI don't know from its pale eyelids, and its short tail which ends in a surprising tuft of white hair. Look at its fangs. Despite its two terrifying fangs, it is a rather peaceful monkey that is used to feedis used feedingis used to feedingI don't know essentially on grass, flowers, roots and fruit. However if by any chance it should fightmay fightmust fightI don't know for dear life, it could fightwill be able to fightmay fightI don't know even against a jaguar. If you watch carefully the Gelada’s picture it will come as a surprisecame as a surpriseit would come as a surpriseI don't know to see on its back an impressive heavy cape of hair and a pink patch which embellishes its chest. In past centuries, Geladas males had been killedwere killedhave been killedI don't know by indigenous
who covetecovetedcovetesI don't know their manes for their ceremonial dresses. Now it is time you knowknewwill knowI don't know information of utmost importance. A study published by Thore Bergman (researcher at Michigan University) revealedhas revealedrevealesI don't know this prodigious information. He said to his readers: Most of primates have lackedlackedlackI don't know the vocal anatomy to produce sophisticated sounds. He added. It is not the case of the Gélada. It emitwill able to emitis able to emitI don't know a wide range of singing sounds more complex than those emitted by the other primates. And the scientist affirmed: these singing noises may have beencould have beenmight have beenI don't know the primitive sounds that ancestors made.