A region of western Asia, in what is now Iraq, known as the âcradle of civilization.â Western writing first developed there, done with sticks on clay tablets. Agricultural organization on a large scale also began in Mesopotamia, along with work in bronze and iron (see Bronze Age and Iron Age).
Analysis: The photo is real â this orchid does exist, and the colorful center of the flower does resemble the face of a monkey or baboon â but the captions above are only semi-correct. The actual species name of the flower is Dracula gigas (Dracula meaning dragon, gigas meaning giant), not, as claimed above, Dracula simia.
Geographic Range. Aotus nancymaae (Maâs night monkey) can be found in the north central Amazonian neotropics of northern Peru and western Brazil in South America. This species was once thought to belong to the species Aotus trivirgatus, whose range was believed to reach from southern Central America to South America.otus nancymaae mate year round, but it is speculated that offspring are conceived dependent of the availability of resources. This results in seasonal breeding in the wild (Greenberg, 1999). The breeding pair is able to care for up to three offspring at a time.