Important Monkey News Update: Happy Year of the Monkey!!!

On 8th February this year we welcomed the Chinese Year of the Monkey!

Apparently if you are born in the year of the monkey you are smart, amibitious and adventurous - all these traits definately apply to sock monkey mums.

They might also apply to a new little monkey who was born 11 days ago at Bristol zoo by C-section!

Okay she is technically a gorilla so depending on how pedantic you may not consider her a monkey, but it's close enough.

Here's some of the differences between apes and monkeys -

1. Apes are usually larger and heavier than monkeys.

2. Apes have no tail.

3. Apes have a more upright body posture than monkeys, and are often able to walk on 2 legs.

4. Apes have a broad chest.

5. Apes rely on vision rather than smell, and thus have shorter noses than some monkeys.

6. Apes have a large brain to body size ratio compared with other animals.

7. Apes only live in Africa and Asia

The latest sock monkey mums are definately from Africa - there were made on Kilimanjaro!

They do have long tails, but also big brains and shiny eyes so they have something in common with their gorilla friends.