Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey By: R.T.

Kingdom: Animalia

Characteristics that place it here: Cells, tissue, and organs.

Phylum: Chordata

Characteristics that place it here : It has a notochord, bilateral symmetry, segmented body, including muscles, tail projecting beyond the anus at some stage of development.

Class: Mammalia

Characteristics that place it here: Three middle ear bones, hair, mammary glands.

Order: Primate

Characteristics that place it here: Charecteristics of the skull teeth and limbs.

Family: Cercopithecidae

Characteristics that place it here: They are folivorous, they don't have cheek pouches, and they have complex stomachs.

Genius and species: Pygathrix roxellana

characteristics that place it here: It is a golden Snub-Nosed Monkey.

                                                 Poem

                                        Monkey, Monkey

                                        swinging from a tree,

                                        I can see you,

                                        but you can't see me.

                                                He He!

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References: animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/pygathrix/p._roxellana$narrative.html

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