THE NAIROBI LIONS - FAME BY NAME!! - BY GARETH JONES A vervet monkey chattered the local bush news from a nearby treetop. Uharaaw rolled over and laughed as hard as a full grown lion can laugh, nearby Roaruh the lioness purred to him "what is it?" Uharaaw replied joyfully "the humans have called me Cheru, and have images of me in many places, even on their little clicky machines, the monkey says I’m quite famous." "Wooaw" coughed Roaruh,"but why do humans want to give us funny sounding names?" Uharaaw muttered "I’m not sure, but the monkey says many of us have names like Ujanja, Mohawk, Sirikoi, Embakasi, Elsie, Mica, Sofie, Solo, Kitili, Morana etc etc…!!!"