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First the negative this is a very loud toy that does not have any sort of volume control. However, your child will be entertained by the varieties of songs and animal sounds that come from this interactive "zoo". Better yet, there is a small control nob that will make a monkey move and dance. You can see the features in the video, and you can imagine the smile's on your child's smile. In terms of safety, there are no small parts or sharp corners.

Features

A small cylinder with number 1-3 that triggers a blurb about turtles

A Toucan

The dancing monkey

Giraffe, Elephant, Penguin, and Parrot keys

A light that blinks with each song and sound.

Final verdict A toy that will be smiles to children ages 6-24 months. I know that our daughter loves it!

5 Stars

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This toy is so very, very obnoxiously annoying. You just don't know. This is the Fran Drescher of baby toys. If it actually taught my daughter something or entertained her for more than 5 minutes, I might be able to get over it. But it has very few redeeming factors in my eyes. It has a single yellow light that flashes just because, I guess to get their attention but it's not really integrated with the design of the toy like most others, it's just...there. The vocals aren't particularly clear / articulate to babies with emerging language skills. Frankly, I see very, very little educational value in this toy, it's mostly for entertainment, so don't buy it expecting your kid to learn something other than how to rhyme "feet" with "feet" (oh no they di-ent). It tips over constantly from having all the buttons up top and the edges are hard plastic which is not a good combination with a wobbly pre-walker who face-plants into the floor roughly every eleven and a half seconds. My daughter has fallen into this very hard toy many times unfortunately. But if you choose to get this toy anyway, be prepared to hum "I'm a great big elephant, stomping here, stomping there" in the company of adults who have no idea your very soul has been infected with the obnoxious, repetitive "lyrics" of this malevolent device. On the day this toy is retired, I shall dance like a monkey and laugh laugh laugh.

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My son received this as a gift at his 1 yr birthday party. He loves it! It can be annoying just like any baby toy but I would put this at a 2 out of 5 if I were rating the annoyance for adults we have this other catch me kitty toy that is much worse). As far as my one year old this is his favorite toy. I have it on our windowsill and he constantly goes over to it to hit a button to make it play a song. The flashing light on our does not work it never has but I don't find that it really matters. There are two "modes" so when one gets old I just switch it to the other mode. I don't find it terribly loud again we have other toys that are much too loud. He constantly drags and drops it and it still works. As far as being educational he says bye bye when the toys says bye bye but I find he just likes to dance to the songs I just don't think every single toy needs to have an educational element some are just for fun and dancing.

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My son received this as a birthday present, and was interested it only for the first couple of days. He soon learned that it's not interacting with him with each button press; it's more like you press one button to engage the autopilot, and let it run its course. Just turning the toy on or pressing a single button will result in a 30to 60-second rapid fire barrage of sound effects and songs, neither of which is effective educationally for my one-year-old.

What became quickly apparent to adults, however, was the unbelievably annoying and even unnerving style in which the male voice sings the songs through this machine. (Another reviewer posted a video, so you can see and hear for yourself.) And to adult ears, the style in which the songs are sung sounds almost twisted, like in a scary clown sort of way. If Chucky (from the "Child's Play" movies) trapped you in a zoo of horrors, you might hear the songs this toy assaults your ears with as you run in vain.

But the most twisted thing? The songs are SO annoying that you can't get them out of your head...and then you start to like them. Well, that happened to me, anyway. All the adults want it taken away, so I may just take it to work, because this toy's apparently worked its twisted magic on me. Not recommended at all as a learning toy.

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Purchased as a christmas gift for our 9 month old daughter. We bought a limited number of toys to keep from having a house full and this was one we selected. It was a little hard to find but worth it! This toy is great! She loves to push the buttons and make the monkey dance. The batteries have held up well considering how much it is used. The ONLY problem is that the songs are quite catch and I catchy myself singing the jingles sometimes :)