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I was walkingwalkedhad 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 never seenHave you ever seendid you ever seeI 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 isn't itisn'tis 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 livingused to liveused to livingI don't know on the highlands of Ethiopia. The male is said weighingis said to weighweighsI don't know up to 20 kilos. It hadishasI don't know a dark lengthened face with a short muzzle. It is also astonishingalso is astonishingis also astonishedI 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 to feedingis used 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 may fightwill be able to fightcould fightI don't know even against a jaguar. If you watch carefully the Gelada’s picture it it would come as a surprisecame as a surprisewill 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 were killedhad been killedhave been killedI don't know by indigenous
who covetedcovetecovetesI don't know their manes for their ceremonial dresses. Now it is time you knewwill knowknowI don't know information of utmost importance. A study published by Thore Bergman (researcher at Michigan University) has revealedrevealedrevealesI don't know this prodigious information. He said to his readers: Most of primates lackedlackhave lackedI 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 might have beenmay have beencould have beenI don't know the primitive sounds that ancestors made.