08-11-2016, 06:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-25-2016, 06:49 PM by Dekalb_Blues.)
Now if only more humans could figure out how to get out of monkey traps!
"A monkey saw a cherry through the clear glass of a bottle, and thought he would take it.
Passing his hand into the neck of the bottle, he closed his fist over the cherry. Now he found
that he could not withdraw his hand. The hunter, who had set this trap, now came along.
The monkey, impossibly hampered by the bottle, could not run away, and he was caught.
'At least I have the cherry in my hand,' he thought. At that moment the hunter gave him
a sharp tap on the elbow. The monkey's hand opened, and came out of the bottle. The
hunter now had the fruit, the bottle, and the monkey."
(from the Book of Amu-Daria)
http://www.godlessinamerica.com/monkeytrap.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9XYxXSmmoU
Bros. http://www.humanjourney.us/ancestorsIntro.html
Just hangin', chillin'. It's no big thang.
Koko the talkative gorilla, who recently (July 8) had her 45th birthday.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/koko-the-talking-gorilla-sign-language-francine-patterson/402307/
Advanced musical skills of some long-haired gorillas.
Orangs want to get into the act, too.
Other examples of animals poised to ascend the evolutionary ladder:
![[Image: attachment.php?attachmentid=162367&d=1414571499]](http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=162367&d=1414571499)
The extremely rare Guacamolean Bat-Eared Foozlemeister performing the third soliloquy ("To be or not to be...") from Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvt4b_qwC_Q
![[Image: Weird-Animals-4.jpg]](http://cdn0.lostateminor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Weird-Animals-4.jpg)
The Great Hiho Silverwhite Landshark proves uncommonly inventive at ad-libbing suitably-themed variations on "The Aristocrats" when presented with random topics as stimuli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYUETk3bv48
![[Image: Weird-Animals-03.jpg]](https://www.funnypica.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Weird-Animals-03.jpg)
A Smooth-Gummed Meerkatagator playing his own transcription of "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" on a steam calliope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua5weRonRrU
![[Image: strange-cat-eyes.jpg]](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1452/2881/1600/strange-cat-eyes.jpg)
Mixed-Breed Long-Haired Domestic Housecat shows astonishing prowess as contrarian financial prognosticator; will soon head own hedge fund: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-07...so-spooked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw
"A monkey saw a cherry through the clear glass of a bottle, and thought he would take it.
Passing his hand into the neck of the bottle, he closed his fist over the cherry. Now he found
that he could not withdraw his hand. The hunter, who had set this trap, now came along.
The monkey, impossibly hampered by the bottle, could not run away, and he was caught.
'At least I have the cherry in my hand,' he thought. At that moment the hunter gave him
a sharp tap on the elbow. The monkey's hand opened, and came out of the bottle. The
hunter now had the fruit, the bottle, and the monkey."
(from the Book of Amu-Daria)
http://www.godlessinamerica.com/monkeytrap.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9XYxXSmmoU
Bros. http://www.humanjourney.us/ancestorsIntro.html
Just hangin', chillin'. It's no big thang.
Koko the talkative gorilla, who recently (July 8) had her 45th birthday.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/koko-the-talking-gorilla-sign-language-francine-patterson/402307/
Advanced musical skills of some long-haired gorillas.
Orangs want to get into the act, too.
Other examples of animals poised to ascend the evolutionary ladder:
The extremely rare Guacamolean Bat-Eared Foozlemeister performing the third soliloquy ("To be or not to be...") from Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvt4b_qwC_Q
The Great Hiho Silverwhite Landshark proves uncommonly inventive at ad-libbing suitably-themed variations on "The Aristocrats" when presented with random topics as stimuli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYUETk3bv48
A Smooth-Gummed Meerkatagator playing his own transcription of "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" on a steam calliope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua5weRonRrU
Mixed-Breed Long-Haired Domestic Housecat shows astonishing prowess as contrarian financial prognosticator; will soon head own hedge fund: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-07...so-spooked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw