December 14 is Monkey Day

[TBoneTX 45,259]

14 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

now our resident simian can give poo flinging classes via zoom............

Inferior primates like you need to learn proper technique.  Fees are reasonable.

[Ban Hammer 13,327]

3 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Inferior primates like you need to learn proper technique.  Fees are reasonable.

superior primates fling hammers.........

[TBoneTX 45,259]

Hammers were banned (ha).

The respective techniques are completely different, which you would know if you'd passed Chimpanzee 101.

[Ban Hammer 13,327]

1 hour ago, TBoneTX said:

Hammers were banned (ha).

The respective techniques are completely different, which you would know if you'd passed Chimpanzee 101.

chimp 101 - where there are long arguments about bananas

[TBoneTX 45,259]

Or arguments about long bananas.

[Ban Hammer 13,327]

[TBoneTX 45,259]

Our Asian cousin once again proves simian superiority.

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Meanwhile, Orangutan Bolts Zoo Enclosure by Swinging in 'Cartwheel-Like Motion' in Ingenious Escape

 

[...] I ran across this story about an ingenious orangutan that cartwheeled, tight-rope-walked, and put on a short trapeze show to escape from its enclosure at the Toronto Zoo on Thursday.

 

Kembali — one of the zoo's seven Sumatran orangutans — was caught outside of the zoo's new outdoor orangutan exhibit, leaving staff scratching their heads over how he escaped the otherwise secure perimeter.  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/09/01/meanwhile-orangutan-escapes-toronto-zoo-by-swinging-in-cartwheel-like-motion-in-ingenious-plan-n2178817

[Ban Hammer 13,327]

20 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Our Asian cousin once again proves simian superiority.

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Meanwhile, Orangutan Bolts Zoo Enclosure by Swinging in 'Cartwheel-Like Motion' in Ingenious Escape

 

[...] I ran across this story about an ingenious orangutan that cartwheeled, tight-rope-walked, and put on a short trapeze show to escape from its enclosure at the Toronto Zoo on Thursday.

 

Kembali — one of the zoo's seven Sumatran orangutans — was caught outside of the zoo's new outdoor orangutan exhibit, leaving staff scratching their heads over how he escaped the otherwise secure perimeter.  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/09/01/meanwhile-orangutan-escapes-toronto-zoo-by-swinging-in-cartwheel-like-motion-in-ingenious-plan-n2178817

must have heard there was a poo flinging contest............

[TBoneTX 45,259]

58 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

must have heard there was a poo flinging contest............

You have a one-track mind, o inferior primate...

[Ban Hammer 13,327]

26 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

You have a one-track mind, o inferior primate...

i'm sure he didn't break out of the zoo to attend a mensa meeting.

[TBoneTX 45,259]

1 hour ago, Ban Hammer said:

i'm sure he didn't break out of the zoo to attend a mensa meeting.

Did you even ask him?   

[Ban Hammer 13,327]

2 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Did you even ask him?   

show us your mensa card first..........

[TBoneTX 45,259]

7 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

show us your mensa card first..........

I saw him at the meeting!  He volunteered to be Newsletter Editor.

[TBoneTX 45,259]

Look at the naïve assumption in the last sentence quoted below.  Amateur researchers!  They probably can't even fling poo.

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Marmosets Have a Skill Only Seen in Dolphins, Elephants, And You

 

Marmosets are small, adorable monkeys native to South America, but it would be unwise to underestimate them.  These diminutive simians are full of surprises, living sophisticated social lives in treetop troops.

According to a new study, members of marmoset troops even call each other by names, a behavior only previously documented in three famously brainy animals:  elephants, dolphins, and humans.

Marmosets use specific vocalizations, known as "phee calls," to both identify and communicate with each other, the study's authors report.

A naming system like this is no trivial discovery in any species, considering how few wild animals are known to have one.  But it's especially interesting to find this in a fellow primate, because until now, we were the only primate known to identify each other by name.  [...]

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/marmosets-skill-only-seen-dolphins-123213759.html

[Ban Hammer 13,327]

59 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

Look at the naïve assumption in the last sentence quoted below.  Amateur researchers!  They probably can't even fling poo.

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Marmosets Have a Skill Only Seen in Dolphins, Elephants, And You

 

Marmosets are small, adorable monkeys native to South America, but it would be unwise to underestimate them.  These diminutive simians are full of surprises, living sophisticated social lives in treetop troops.

According to a new study, members of marmoset troops even call each other by names, a behavior only previously documented in three famously brainy animals:  elephants, dolphins, and humans.

Marmosets use specific vocalizations, known as "phee calls," to both identify and communicate with each other, the study's authors report.

A naming system like this is no trivial discovery in any species, considering how few wild animals are known to have one.  But it's especially interesting to find this in a fellow primate, because until now, we were the only primate known to identify each other by name.  [...]

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/marmosets-skill-only-seen-dolphins-123213759.html

so maybe in a million years, the chips will evolve into marmosets?