1st February. The Worlds Smallest Monkey.

I found myself staring into the face of the world's smallest monkey, albeit on the other side of plate glass. They have a body about the size of a rat with what looks like a shrunken human head attached. Of course these are on the 'endangered' species list along with just about everything else in the zoo, apart from opportunist grey squirrels, jackdaws and Us.

There's not much the World's Smallest Monkey can say about its habitat being turned into sheets of plywood because of its language abilities. Evolution can't go backwards, having backed itself into an ecological cul-de-sac, it's only choice is to cash in it's chips.

By a remarkable coincidence we met F&D who were wheeling their very own Pink Bush Baby around, who was two today. Unlike the WSM she is showing an amazing ability to soak up vocabulary and in a few short years will be able to fully understand the plight of the World's Smallest Monkey and how plywood is made.