Endangered baby monkey survives with the help of a teddy bear – answers
A Zoo keepers at London Zoo bought a baby white-naped mangabey a teddy bear to act as a comforter and surrogate mum.
B Its birth was hailed as a red-letter day for the international captive breeding programme.
C The baby was born by Caesarean section.
D To ensure that the baby was still fed despite her mother being seriously ill, keepers were obliged to step in.
E In Germany a zoo keeper built up a close association with a polar bear which was born in similar circumstances.
F He was accused of altering the natural behaviour of the bear.
Note: Did you alter the grammar here? The original in the recording mentions that the close association between Knut and his keeper prompted accusations that its natural behaviour was altered….
G The teddy bear and the monkey have bonded so well they are nowinseparable.
H The monkey hugs the teddy bear as if it were her own mother.
Notice that the animal and the teddy bear are both referred to as ‘it’, although the speaker makes a mistake and refers once to the teddy bear early on as ‘she’.
I If Conchita is alarmed she doesn’t run to her keeper, she clamps onto the teddy bear.
VB clamp onto sth – get hold of sth very tightly
J The bear’s smell is reassuring for the monkey.
Did you alter the grammar here? The original said the teddy bear’s smell reassures her (the baby monkey); so what is needed here is the adjective, not part of the verb.
K There is no question of washing the bear, as this would make it unrecognisable.
L The bear which was chosen had to be the right size and robust.
M It contains harmless fibres that will endure plenty of sucking and chewing.
N The baby monkey will be reintroduced to its mother over the next few weeks.
Did you make the active verb in the recording into a passive one here, as required?
O She will also be allowed to join the three adult mangabeys in an enclosure.
Did you make the active verb in the recording into a passive one here, as required?
P Both the mother and the father are showing (an) interest in their baby.
Q White-naped mangabeys originate from Ghana, West Africa.
R They are now classified as critically endangered.
S Only a few thousand are left in the world, due to loss of habitat, the pet trade and bushmeat hunting.
T Conchita is only the second white-naped mangabey to be born in Britain.
Grammar: We use the infinitive of a verb after ‘the first / second / third….. and also after the next / the last:
He was the first person to congratulate me yesterday.
I am the last person to ask for advice, believe me.
The next bus to arrive will be the Clacton one.
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U Staff at the zoo described her as a beacon of hope.
V Only if conservationists learn more about captive populations of white-naped mangabeys will they be able to survive in the wild.
W This is why Conchita’s birth was considered vitally important.