A weblog about stuff and junk by Jake Sutton
Senegalese chimps appear to manufacture and use spear-like implements.
In one case, Pruetz and Bertolani, from the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies in Cambridge, UK, witnessed a chimpanzee extract a bushbaby with a spear.
In most cases, the Fongoli chimpanzees carried out four or more steps to manufacture spears for hunting.
That’s just great.
When were humans first making spears? At least now we can write up a timeline for when to expect the Simianistas to take over completely.
Specifically, too much of it.
But the over-zealous creature proceeded to stick its little monkey tongue into Sienna’s mouth.
The Alfie star adds, “I sort of made out with a monkey… It was a sweet monkey but, no, that’s too much.”
And to finish off the bizarre encounter, the monkey proceeded to urinate on Sienna’s back.
And down in St. Kitts it’s a major problem, I guess:
There is no point talking about increasing agricultural production in St. Kitts if we continue to ignore the serious monkey problem we have here – namely, the huge and ever increasing population of monkeys that wander the country side devastating vegetables and fruit crops wherever they go.
Personally, I’d go with the monkeys eating my fruit rather than sticking their tongues down my throat.
By way of kinyahbrutha: Court Reprimands New Delhi Over Monkeys
As forest cover around New Delhi has shrunk, the city has struggled with a growing simian population. Government buildings, temples and many residential neighborhoods are overrun by hundreds of Rhesus macaques. The animals will occasionally snatch food from unsuspecting passers-by and even bite them.
And by way of Dear Abby: Husband’s monkey business is sign marriage is in trouble
When Suzy wants to have sex and asks him to come to bed, her husband refuses and tells her, “I’d rather spend time with Jocko.”
Grocery snatching and home wrecking… Insidious little scamps, aren’t they?
Great Ape Scolded for Pulling Fire Alarm
The fire alarm is on a wall in the bonobo home in an area used by the apes and members of the scientific team. Panbanisha is one of seven bonobos at the Great Ape Trust, and was among the first group to arrive in April 2005. Bonobos are among the most human-like of the great apes.
Unfortunately, this story was posted to the Monkey Wire email list with the title “Great Ape Scolded for Pulling Fire Arm“. That would have been a much more entertaining (er… I mean worrisome or something like that…) story!
First, we’ll compare and contrast the human/primate relations in India as depicted by two stories:
The monkey news in the US is much less… Um… Am I a bad person if I say “entertaining”? Anyway…
Former employee blames UC Davis officials in monkey deaths
Several weeks later, the heater at the Animal Resources Service building blew hot air into the animals’ room, raising the temperature to about 115 degrees.
Yeah, that’s just gross.
Monkeys “imitate with a purpose�, matching their behaviour to others’ as a form of social learning, researchers report.
Such mimicry has previously been seen only in great apes – including humans and chimps – but now Italian researchers have recorded wonderful footage of the phenomenon in newborn rhesus macaques.
Oh sure, they “imitate with a purpose” alright: To take us down a notch and move on up the evolutionary scale, I’d say!
Stupid learning monkeys…
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