Sleep is an important part of life for all mammals, which we all must indulge in nightly to stay fit and healthy.

Doctors believe that a minimum of six hours a night is needed to keep an adult fit and healthy, as sleep is the time when the body regenerates cells and the brain can review it’s workings and experiences in able to form new connections. Though six hours seems to be the minimum amount of sleep the body and brain should properly function on, eight hours helps the body and brain feel more rested and refreshed. More sleep means more cell regeneration, more brain connections.

So, as I am always on a quest to be as healthy as I can, treating my body as a temple and all that, I try to get a minimum of 18 hours sleep a day.

Before I came to live at Monkey Towers I had another life. One of glitz and glamour, bright lights and long carpets of scarlet red, lit by the flaring bulbs of a swarm of photographers. I can’t say it was ‘work’ as such, it came so very easily. Perhaps my biggest film was one that I starred in alongside Sigourney Weaver.

Gorillas In The Mist is a heart-breaking tale of the protection of one of our planet’s most noble and endangered creatures. It was a tough role. I’m not a gorilla, but I am a method actor.

I said to Mimi the other day that I had never seen a duck.  You know, I have seen them on TV – their bright yellow bills, waddling webbed feet and funny bum-wiggling swimming action, but I had never seen a duck in real life. The worst thing is, I know that there must be some ducks nearby, because I can hear their quacking. So, I decided that it would be good to have a trip out to introduce myself to the local duck fraternity.

There were quite a few duck there.

At first I was not quite sure whether they were a friendly life form. They like to hang out in large gangs and make loud, perhaps aggressive noises, which can be quite intimidating to a monkey who has never seen a duck before, but Mimi said that they could be appeased by feeding. Much like myself.

I’m not quite sure I did the feeding quite right, though:

… sit around in your pants all day watching football on TV

Giantmonk’s favourite song.

Hewwo. I am Giantmonk.  I am the biggest monkey on world of monkey.  As Monkey is in Neasden on a diplomatic mission, I thought I should make my own video to introduce myself.