Monthly Archives: April 2008

Monkeys Playing At The Zoo.

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Monkeys playing at the zoo. Simple enough

Orangutan Hunts With Spear

Thinkers of the Jungle by Gerd Schuster, Willie Smits and Jay Ullal promises to have some very impressive pictures of our hairy brothers in the jungle. Sounds like a good read.
Above is a photo featured in the the Daily Mail which is very impressive.

Monkey Pictures

Pat on the back
Hitchhiker
Grooming
Gorilla sleeping
Monkey Tourist Posing

Monkeynapping

Someone monkeynapped a 0-month-old callimico monkey in Canada a few days ago. The monkey has since been reunited with it’s relatives. Apparently this isn’t that uncommon:

This month, two marmoset monkeys were stolen from a home near Orlando. Both were recovered after a man came forward and told police he’d bought a monkey for [...]

Police Capture Monkey After Traffic Chaos

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He looks pissed off.

Never Tease A Monkey

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Never tease a monkey. They always win. Except King Kong, kinda… but he came close.

Hitman Monkey

Hitman Monkey finds no joy in his job. It’s true, monkeys don’t like to hurt, but sometimes feel a need.

Macaques Waste Nothing

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Even I am speechless.

Three’s A Crowd

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When it comes to monkeys having sex in the trees, spectators welcome, but three’s a crowd.
Not sure who added the audio to this one, a little profane though, since as well all know monkeys [...]

Monkey Security

As Bruce Schneier hints, monkeys can have relevance in the topic of security. In particular research on risk preference. The study he notes is pretty interesting:

Because chimpanzees exploit riskier food sources in the wild, we predicted that they would exhibit greater tolerance for risk in choices about food. Results confirmed this prediction: chimpanzees [...]