monkeys

Toque macaque

China has Sri Lanka in a debt stranglehold forcing them to export 100,000 macaque monkeys for lab testing

NEWS AND COMMENT/OPINION: In my view, this is a terrible example of how humankind has totally screwed up its relationship with animals. In this instance two parties, Sri Lanka and China, are the miscreants. They are the bad boys. Sri Lanka has got into a terrible debt with China. But then China likes to loan …

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Abused every day to entertain people in Asia

Primate in Asia choked, beaten, and chained to perform stupid tricks for human entertainment

Hardly any words to add to this. All I know is that it is in Asia. PETA got hold of the video. And it is like watching hell on earth and humans God bless them created it. What happened to the human race? It’s no wonder many people prefer animals to people. I think I’m …

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Small common squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus). Notice the thumbs.

Our physical attributes help us to predict the actions of others and therefore often affects our perception of what is going on and what might happen

A study with monkeys, two species of which had opposable thumbs while the third didn’t, indicated to the researchers “the intriguing possibility that an individual’s inherent physical capability heavily influences their perception, their memory of what they think they saw and their ability to predict manual movements of those around them.” The study tells us …

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Monkey abducts puppy in India

Video of monkey abducting and carrying away puppy on roof in India indicative of underlying problems

It is disturbing for the following reasons: It highlights a terrible breakdown in the human-to-animal relationship. It tells us that monkeys in urban environments in India are learning bad behavior from humans or are aggrieved by human behaviour as some believe that they steal dogs to kill them in retaliation for dogs killing their young. …

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Monkey and humans are primates and we share greeting behaviors

Monkeys hug and kiss on meeting. Looks like our behavioural origins.

The video is cute. They look like mini humans hugging and on one occasion passionately kissing each other. It is hard to ignore the conclusion that the origins of the human hug and kiss as a greeting behaviour is here in our ancestral cousins, the monkeys (primates). However, we are not descended from monkeys. We …

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Monkey doing walking handstand on wall

Monkey in India has fun doing walking handstand along 30-yard wall

He is having fun. There can’t be any other reason. He is using his inherited skills, which are awesome, just for the hell of it and I for one am mightily impressed. Or perhaps they knew they were being filmed and decided to show off? A remote possibility I believe.   On the internet, there …

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Chickenpox

3 diseases unfairly named after animals

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that the name of a disease should avoid “causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups, and minimise any negative impact on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare”. It is the last item which interests me and I will mention three diseases unfairly named …

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The Drunken Monkey

Humans inherited their love of booze from their primate ancestors

Provided you believe in human evolution from primates as most people do, it seems pretty certain that humans have inherited their love of alcohol from their primate ancestors who gorged on fruit containing alcohol. This is the conclusion of a study by Christina Campbell and of a book written by evolutionary physiologist Robert Dudley: The …

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Sugar-mad monkeys of Lopburi harass a photographer

Sugar-mad monkeys of Thailand take over. Echoes of Planet of the Apes.

NEWS AND COMMENT- LOPBURI, THAILAND: In echoes of a prequel to the well-known film the Planet of the Apes the macaque monkeys of Lopburi in Thailand have broken out of their temple and are causing mayhem in the town, forming gangs and fighting over territory all as a result of Covid-19 placing restrictions on tourism. …

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Monkey takes small dog to the top of a building to throw it off to kill it.

Planet of the Apes NOW! Enraged monkeys kill 250 dogs and attack people

NEWS AND COMMENT-MAHARASHTRA, INDIA: In Majalgaon and Lavul village in the state of Maharashtra, India, enraged monkeys are taking revenge on the street dogs by carrying them to the top of trees and buildings and throwing them off to their deaths. And if people try to intervene, they attack them. It looks like the primates …

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World's smallest monkey - Pigmy Marmoset, Western Thailand

World’s smallest monkey – Pygmy Marmoset, Western Thailand

“The western pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) is a marmoset species, a very small New World monkey found in the northwestern Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.” – Wikipedia. The lifespan is said to be about 12 years and they can make good pets with patience! They are still primates and not dogs or …

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Red-handed tamarin

Red-handed tamarins speak like their rivals to avoid conflict

Dr. Jacob Dunn of Anglia Ruskin University, the co-author of a study on red-handed tamarins, published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, discovered that when monkeys of this species are spotted in the territory of a rival gang, they speak like their rivals to avoid a bloody turf war. He said: “They’re are saying …

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