Below is the conversation
Mr. Figinblossom's students had after they encountered the spider monkeys.
Read it, then add your contribution to the conversation in your TRAVEL LOG.
Dalia:
We're just hanging around - in the
canopy! Wow! There are so many branches and leaves overlapping one another
- with dancing speckles of sun splattered all over them. It's like we're
in the middle of a giant picture puzzle - and we're each just one small
piece of the puzzle."
Tina: Well I certainly don't want to sound like Catrina, but being
small like the ants sure makes this tree trunk seem incredibly long.
Catrina: Yeah, and so incredibly boring! I'm getting sick
and tired of this climbing business. If I wanted to march this much I would
have joined the school band! You know your life has reached its sorriest state
when you start envying a bunch of apes, but if we were regular size again
at least we could climb and play on the branches, too.
Otis: Actually, spider monkeys are not really considered apes. They
are primates like apes - and like us - but.....
Catrina: Who cares?! Your head is so stuffed full of facts that you
don't even get my point: those monkeys are playing and having a great
time and we're marching up the trunk of a mile-long tree like a bunch
of robotic insects.
Otis: Ants may seem robotic, but actually their behavior is programmed
by chemicals called pheromones that are...
Catrina: Spare me the details, would you, Shakespeare?! I just want
to get this trip over as soon as possible, OK, and I don't need the host
of the Nature Channel making it longer and duller than it already is.
Tina: You know, that's what we like about you, Rat-a-tat-tat, you're
just so complimentary and agreeable - like a lightening storm.
Wally: Ah, c'mon guys, let's do what the frog said and make
good use of what we've got. Let's take a break and play right here
on the bark for a while.
Dalia: Yeah, this would make a great place for a game of hide-n-go-seek.
Charlie: Or a scavenger hunt!
Teresa: We could play queen on the mountain!
Jose: Or war! The enemy is just over that ridge... !Atacamos! Onward
troops!
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