monkeys

Nice phone: Bali’s thieving monkeys can spot high-value items to ransom This seems to me to be quite sophisticated behaviour. Not being very good at searching such things I was unable to find the paper this article cites, even searching the lead author's name in Google Scholar. Can anyone do...

I saw this documentary recently: https://natgeotv.com/uk/woman-raised-by-monkeys I had never heard of Marina Chapman prior to watching this show. It was interesting but felt biased toward her claim being true in my opinion. But it left me wondering. Her claim is that she was snatched from her...

Just heard this on BBC Radio 5. The story as reported in the radio sounds ridiculous and sounds like the daughter is the driving force behind the publicity. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/experts-wary-of-womans-raised-by-monkeys-claim-8555708.html Apparently expert opinion is...

Housewife Marina Chapman to tell of being raised by Colombian capuchin monkeys Honestly, this screams "Fake!" to me. The story is basically a press release, and offers no confirmatory proof for any of her story. I've not been able to turn up anything else on the web about her. For instance...

Scientists may be a step closer to understanding the origins of human language http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8405806.stm In the menu it's less measured: "'Boom, krak-oo, hok' - scientists translate monkey talk"

Therapy fixes red-green color blindness in monkeys Monkeys once color-blind can now see the world in full color thanks to gene therapy. The results demonstrate the potential for such methods to eventually cure human vision disorders, from color blindness to possibly other conditions leading to...

Vervet Monkeys give alarm calls to warn fellow monkeys of the presence of predators, even though in doing so they attract attention to themselves, increasing their personal chance of being attacked. The Vervet Monkey seems to possess what has been called the "rudiments of language". Alarm calls...

Police: Men smuggled monkeys in pants; also leopard cubs, orchids, birds of paradise By Lisa Sweetingham Court TV LOS ANGELES — When the rare birds of paradise escaped from his suitcase and flew over the heads of U.S. Customs Agents at Los Angeles International Airport, Robert Cusack decided...

The infinite monkey theorum is well known.... One of the great parts of the theorum is how it illustrates the incomprehensibility of infinity for the human mind...... Indeed, it's been worked out the probability of randomly producing hamlet... so, can the human mind ever hope to understand...

Bears Eat Monkey in Front of Zoo Visitors Like Offspring sang, "You gotta keep 'em separated!" P.S. Link contains slightly disturbing (to some) pic.

Hi all. I know that Lyall Watson's 100th monkey story has been pretty much debunked as fiction, but what about the story about glycerine crystals that he relates it to? Does anyone know the facts about this, and whether it actually happened the way he says it did? I think Rupert Sheldrake also...

I always get a kick out of this, though (mixed metaphor alert!) it leaves a bitter aftertaste. Modern primates simply share common (or common enough) ancestry. An illustration: From here. Viewed in retrospect, the Benz Motorwagen (pictured below) can be seen as the ancestor of all wheeled...

quote: Poland Official: Troops Should Leave Iraq Monday October 4, 2004 12:16 PM By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press writer WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland, a key U.S. ally in Iraq, should withdraw its troops from the Mideast nation at the end of next year, Poland's defense minister said in...

Sorry, its a great health technology development, but I really liked this headline. Explains a lot don't you think, politically and otherwise. http://www.detnews.com/2003/nation/0310/13/a04-296017.htm

Monkeys demanding equal pay for equal work. :p Morality is simply the expression of the biological facts of social existance. Get over it, already. ;)

"LONDON - Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. " ***stuff deleted*** ""Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who...