{"id":426,"date":"2011-07-12T14:28:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T14:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheatswhiz.com\/minimonos\/?p=426"},"modified":"2011-07-12T14:28:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T14:28:05","slug":"monkey-fact-monday-this-central-african-monkey-plays-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheatswhiz.com\/minimonos\/2011\/07\/monkey-fact-monday-this-central-african-monkey-plays-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Fact Monday: This Central African monkey plays dead!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are plenty of monkeys around with many talents but have you monkeys out there heard of the de Brazza\u2019s monkey.\u00a0Calypso told us a few facts about this species!<\/p>\n

The De Brazza\u2019s monkeys were known as swamp monkeys until the Italian-French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza renamed them after himself.<\/p>\n

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The De Brazza\u2019s monkeys don\u2019t live very long compared to other monkey types but they live for an average of 22 years.<\/p>\n

These monkeys are very skilled when it comes to hiding from predators. One tactic they use when they are alarmed to freeze and act dead, which to be honest I think that is really cool! De Brazza\u2019s monkeys also have the ability comouflage themselves in their surroundings very well.<\/p>\n

What other animals do you know, ‘play dead’ to escape from predators?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are plenty of monkeys around with many talents but have you monkeys out there heard of the de Brazza\u2019s monkey.\u00a0Calypso told us a few facts about this species! The De Brazza\u2019s monkeys were known as swamp monkeys until the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheatswhiz.com\/minimonos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheatswhiz.com\/minimonos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheatswhiz.com\/minimonos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheatswhiz.com\/minimonos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheatswhiz.com\/minimonos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheatswhiz.com\/minimonos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheatswhiz.com\/minimonos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheatswhiz.com\/minimonos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheatswhiz.com\/minimonos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}