Dr. Seuss might have written the Lorax after seeing these creatures in Kenya

Sunday, July 29, 2018 - 08:42 in Psychology & Sociology

Animals Seeing these mustachioed monkeys during an episode of writer’s block gave Theodor Seuss Geisel the inspiration he needed to write his memorable ecological fable New research reports that the Lorax's tubby poise was inspired by a real animal—the patas monkey—and the monkey’s bond with a real tree, the whistling thorn acacia. In…

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