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grabbed the box and sat on the teacher’s

               desk. It enjoyed the meal. To everyone’s                                 grabbed  took  something
               astonishment, Baby Chimp took the wooden                                 with  a  sudden  movement
                                                                                        astonishment  very  great
               duster from the table and cracked open the                               surprise
               peanut shells. Everyone watched as it ate                                Pat  to  touch  someone
                                                                                        gently  with  a  flat  hand  as
               hungrily. After eating the grapes and peanuts,                           a  sign  of  care
               Baby Chimp looked very happy.


               Within a few minutes, the Principal, school manager, security guards
               and the zookeeper with some helpers, reached the classroom.


               The zookeeper called out to Baby Chimp, “Come on. Come here.” The
               chimpanzee seemed to understand. The zookeeper and his helper held

               a big bunch of bananas and some apples in a cane basket. He kept
               handing them one by one as the baby chimpanzee followed him down

               the corridor, across the garden and into an open mini truck covered
               with a net made of ropes. Children in other classrooms also looked

               out of windows and waved at the baby chimpanzee.

               It was a great sight to watch. Disha said, “I wish Baby Chimp could
               stay here forever.” The teacher gave her a  pat  and said, “The mother

               of the baby chimpanzee looks worried and is restless without her baby

               in the zoo. So, it is good that it will go back. Secondly, the zookeeper
               said that the animals are kept in
               open areas

               surrounded by

               net walls.
               Right?
               Children,

               settle down

               now.” All
               the students
               went back to

               their seats.

               The teacher
               continued,


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