animating ears, eyes and mouth of suzane

Hi, i have to questions:

  1. is possibly to animate the ears, eyes and mouth of monkey suzanne? in positive case, the way of doing this is adding bones?

  2. is there some special effect in blender to use in animate objetcs? I mean, stuff like fade-in, fade-out, zoom-in, zoom-out?

regards

There are a number of ways to do this. The most common way to animate facial expressions, though, is with shape keys. Usually the head would be controlled by just one or two bones, of an armature, and all the expressions done using shape keys. check the blender wiki for documentation. As to fading and zooming, fading can be done in the video sequence editor, or by adding alpha keys in the materials window, and zooming is accomplished by animating your camera.