Monkey
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Researcher Wires Four Rats’ Brains Together – Creates Bizarre Organic “Brainet”
At Duke University a researcher who’s pioneering brain-computer interfaces has circuited four rats’ together via their brains and created a gooey and organic “Brainet”. Miguel Nicolelis, the neurobiologist pioneering this neuroengineering...
Chimpanzee Builds Fire and Roasts Marshmallows – Casually Signals End of Human Dominance
With Dawn of the Planet of the Apes just around the corner, this couldn’t be a more timely reminder of how things can change. Remember how dramatic of a moment it was when Caesar from Rise of the Planet of the Apes stands up and yells...
Chimp Gets Cable – Prefers Sexier Premium Channels
While we all wait for the scenes in Planet of the Apes to play out in real-life, a female chimp named Gina will give us all a glimmer of hope that at least a small percentage of our future primate overlords will need us for a little...
Monkey Killed For Being A Witch
This is actually a really horrible story. A vervet monkey was killed and burned in South Africa by a mob who was convinced it was a witch. Bonus awful points – the police helped out by shooting at the monkey. It reported that the monkey...
Convict Monkey Escapes
Officials in Mishima City, Japan have reported that a terrorist monkey, known as “Lucky”, has escaped during a cage cleaning and has left the government-run nature park where it was being held. Lucky is most widely known for biting nearly...
Baboon Hoax Leads To Proof Of Monkey Dance
Man Busted With 18 Monkeys In His Girdle
Awkward. MEXICO CITY — A man with a mysterious bulge under his T-shirt was stopped, searched and detained at Mexico City’s international airport after authorities found 18 tiny endangered monkeys in a girdle he was wearing. The Public...
Debunking The Merciless Monkey Soldier Threat In Afghanistan
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Monkey Police On The Patrol In Thailand
If this isn’t the coolest picture ever taken, I don’t know what is. Santisuk Phromdao is a pig-tailed macaque monkey from Sai Buri district, Patttani province, southern Thailand. Although only five years old, Santisuk patrols the streets...