Personal Narrative: The Fort Worth Zoo

What does our future hold for us? Will it fulfill our wishes and dreams? Will we have a happy family? Well in order to worry about our future, we have to learn from our past and how we have changed. About 65 million years ago, a meteor hit Earth and primates started to show up and eventually lead to our creation. There are many different kinds of primates that we have studied and learned from. We can go to different places to view and understand their life style. The Fort Worth zoo is one of those places where I went to observe and learn. I got to observe two white-cheeked gibbons and three ring-tailed Lemurs. Apart from their difference they also have some similarities.
The first primate that I observed was the white-cheeked gibbons. They are also known as Nomascus leucogenys and they can be found in canopies in subtropical rainforests. White-cheeked gibbons
One of the similarities was their exhibit. They both lived in a place that had grass, water, rocks, and even a wooden display or platform for them to move around. They also had trees for provide shade. I learned that both Gibbon and Lemurs have females as their dominate figure who runs the territory. One of the difference that I noticed was how they communicate. The Gibbons used sound while the Lemurs used their tails. Also the Gibbons had more open space to move around then the Lemurs. The Gibbons were also more active by swinging around than the Lemurs who were just sitting around and eating. Though, these two animal are very different in appearance and body structure, they both are Primates. They are an example that we all are different and that we can live together but we have to make sure that we are not doing something that would hurt someone else. We all come from different places and are different, so in order to be successful in our future, we have to be able to learn to change and adapt to our