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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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