Stories visits Chief Shikellamy Elementary School
Chief Shikellamy School, a public elementary school in the Shikellamy School District located in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, was Stories from The Rainforest’s next stop on their grand tour.
We had a very captive audience. The students were filled with wonder and many questions. They immediately wanted to know if there are albino animals in the rainforest. Tom answered with, “Why YES, there are albino animals everywhere in the rainforest.” Tom continued by explaining that Albinos lack the brown pigment which gives color to skin, fur, and eyes. 
The fun continued with discussions about monkeys. Monkeys will not attack humans because they are afraid of humans. They do not swing with their tails. They swing with the arms and legs and hold on with their tail. This tail is one of the spider monkeys adaptations needed to live in the canopy. The tail is a prehensile tail – the under side of the tip of this tail has skin like the palm of our hand which allows spider monkeys to hold on better. It is called a spider monkey because of its long arms and legs. The fruit seed is able to stay alive in a spider monkeys stomach because their stomach acid is designed not to kill the seed.
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