Monkey See, Monkey Do

“ain't no tellin' what a monkey will do!”

“see monkey throw do-do”

“Is this another TC2 story?”

“where's LYra?? :-)”

“That'd be "doo doo".....”

“do run run do run run”

“Doodooooo!
The snak of champeens!
(o:3”

“Yumblilicious!”

“Quit monkeying around!”

“Quit monkeying around.






Sorry, didn't realize I was aping you, Geo!”

“Let's play Simian Sez.........”

“A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey's bottoms. The way the experiment was set up, the act is akin to paying for the images, the researchers say.

The rhesus macaque monkeys also splurged on photos of top-dog counterparts, the high-ranking primates. Maybe that's like you or me buying People magazine.

The research, which will be detailed in the March issue of Current Biology, gets more interesting.

The scientists actually had to pay these guys, in the form of extra juice, to get them to look at images of lower-ranking monkeys.

Curiously, the monkeys in the test hadn't had any direct physical contact with the monkeys in the photos, so they didn't have personal experience with who was hot and who was not.

"So, somehow, they are getting this information by observation -- by seeing other individuals interact," said Michael Platt of the Duke University Medical Center.

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/050128_monkey_business.html
last edited: 10/03/05 4:02:57 PM”

“Now that is research that we need more of. Wouldn't you agree Lyra?”

“I wonder if this was one of the pictures they are talking about ...





”

“they did what on the photos?? i'm scandalized! haha, i have the mind of a 15-yr-old boy.

ok now that is one monkey's butt i don't want to even think about seeing, Geo.”

“Hey!?”

“LMAO!

Now I could understand if they were spider monkeys...”

“i always thought that a lot of cops had monkey-like tendancies.”