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A very strange cre<strong>at</strong>ure<br />
I saw the most amazing thing when I walked<br />
<strong>home</strong> from training yesterday! Sasha and I had just<br />
reached the corner of our street when we saw a<br />
crowd of people looking up into the trees along the<br />
footp<strong>at</strong>h.<br />
We had to stop and fi nd out wh<strong>at</strong> was so interesting,<br />
so we moved through the crowd until we got close<br />
to the front where we had a better view.<br />
Sitting happily in the branches of one of the trees<br />
was the strangest cre<strong>at</strong>ure I had ever seen! It was<br />
only about as big as my school ruler and had a<br />
pink face. It had yellow hands and feet. The fur<br />
on its back was grey and it had black fur around<br />
its mouth and nose. It even had tufts of white fur<br />
on its ears! Leaves shook as it scrambled madly<br />
backwards and forwards among the branches.<br />
Twittering and shrieking noises could be heard<br />
coming from behind the leaves.<br />
The crowd ch<strong>at</strong>ted to each other and pointed <strong>at</strong> the<br />
cre<strong>at</strong>ure.<br />
Old Mrs Tonkins and Mr Dial carried out a lively<br />
discussion about wh<strong>at</strong> type of cre<strong>at</strong>ure it was and<br />
whether it was dangerous, while others muttered<br />
th<strong>at</strong> Robert needed to be quick about ringing<br />
the animal protection board.<br />
We all kept our eyes on the cre<strong>at</strong>ure<br />
while we waited, afraid th<strong>at</strong> it might<br />
disappear before help could arrive.<br />
After about twenty minutes, a<br />
truck could be heard coming up<br />
the street. We all stepped out of<br />
the way and w<strong>at</strong>ched two men<br />
emerge. They went to the back<br />
of the truck and got out a wire<br />
cage, a large net and a ladder<br />
and harness.<br />
Recount 1<br />
The smallest man propped the ladder against the<br />
nearest tree and quietly climbed into the lower<br />
branches. Once he was se<strong>at</strong>ed safely in the fork<br />
of the tree, he <strong>at</strong>tached the harness to a strong<br />
branch. His partner passed the net up to him and he<br />
manoeuvred it until it was over the top of the cre<strong>at</strong>ure.<br />
When he brought it swiftly down, the cre<strong>at</strong>ure was<br />
trapped between the net and a tree branch. Then he<br />
slipped the net underne<strong>at</strong>h and around the cre<strong>at</strong>ure<br />
and handed it down to his partner. He pushed the<br />
opening of the net into the cage and released the<br />
cre<strong>at</strong>ure.<br />
‘It’s gre<strong>at</strong> th<strong>at</strong> you people saw this little fellow’, he<br />
st<strong>at</strong>ed. ‘Someone climbed over the zoo fence last<br />
night and let out all the monkeys. We’ve been<br />
collecting them all day. These spider monkeys<br />
have only just arrived from South America for our<br />
breeding program. They’re the sweetest specimens<br />
I’ve ever seen!’<br />
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