mother nature walks out on humanitya stoned crow has a bizarre religious experiencetwo white lab rats carry out an outrageous experiment on a research scientistbritain goes to the dogs and to the cats but mostly to the dogsthese are some of the wonderful tales told by the worldfamous monkey with a typewriter the macaque jaxy mono in zootopia his followup to his smash hit of monkey lit the book of dubious beastsbeautifully illustrated with drawings by renowned artist dmitry pousirev zootopia is suitable for children and adults from 11 to 111 it contains such classic oncereadneverforgotten stories as mother nature the arctic penguin the crow and the eletigerabout zootopiathe book of life is written with an alphabet of only four letters a t g and c yet these four letters repeated in endless variations are enough to spell out the recipes for life forms as diverse as bacteria fungae plants insects fish birds mammals and even a singularly pompous pretentious and selfimportant species of old world monkey called homo sapiensso just imagine what weird and wonderful creatures could be invented using all twentysix letters of the alphabet from doggypotamuses and rattoothed catypusses to winged cargo mammoths and elephanzees the possibilities are mindbogglingof course the cynics amongst you will object that it is almost infinitely unlikely that a macaque tapping away at the screen of an ipad could hit upon a sequence of letters that resulted in even a fictitious lifeform that would require a godlike author with conscious intentbut isnt mother nature herself really no more than a monkey with a typewriter blindly tapping out a t g and c over and over until she hits upon the code of a valid lifeformand surely whats good enough for mother nature should be good enough for us her children