Why bananas belong to monkeys?

Dedicated to Alethea and Grey.

Hello, this is Janna, and I'm here with another lively monkey story from Brazil.

We think our youngest listeners will most appreciate these cheeky stories.

In this episode we answer a question that has long puzzled some of the world's greatest

thinkers.

Why is it that monkeys believe that they rightfully own all the bananas?

Listen on to find out.

Once upon a time when the world was new, there was only one kind of banana, but very many

kinds of monkey.

In those days a woman kept a big garden full of banana trees.

It was difficult for the woman to gather the bananas herself.

So she made a bargain with the largest monkey.

She told him that if he gathered the bunches of bananas, she would let him keep half.

So the monkey climbed the tree and picked the bananas.

When he took his half, he gave the woman the bananas which grew at the bottom of the

bunch and was small and wrinkled.

He kept the big fat ones for himself and carried them home to let them ripen in the dark.

The woman was very annoyed.

She lay awake all night trying to think of some way to get even with the monkey.

Then at last she thought of a trick.

The following day she made an image of wax that looked like a boy.

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