10

1+3+6(each hand)=10

Stuffed animals, that is funny Made me smile to think of ALL the critters in an adults bedroom....

All of them.

I'm with 10 as well.

Four

one, but the usage is still needing work.

19 if all 9 elephants saw the same 3 monkeys and the Elephants were also going to the river (which was not clear). Otherwise I think 10 is right.

Someone needs to add some commas.

Did the elephants see the three same monkeys or did each elephant see three different monkeys meaning twenty seven monkeys?

My guess is eighty two animals:

One rabbit

Twenty seven monkeys (doesn't specify they were the same)

Fifty four tortoises

Nothing says the elephants were going to the river

I agree with 10. Although it could be 4, as the tortoises were not traveling on their own steam. Plus, are tortoises 'animals'? It doesn't say where the elephants were going.

Rusty

"Plus, are tortoises 'animals'?"

Of course they are!! They just happen to be reptiles, not mammals.

one

One.

And I have a stuffed animal that is at least 51 years old.

18

9 + 3+ 6

I believe this was translated from another language, and where the riddle says "going" it should say "walking" so that the final question would be "How many animals were walking to the river?"

One rabbit and three monkeys were walking to the river, so a total of four animals were walking to the river.

The elephants weren't going anywhere, and the tortoises were being carried, they weren't walking.

Four. Final answer. Lock it in.

16

in that case 12.