Althouse: "Due to the intense interior lives that these animals have, you have to enrich their environment to stimulate them physically and psychologically...."

January 15, 2013

"Due to the intense interior lives that these animals have, you have to enrich their environment to stimulate them physically and psychologically...."

"The surprise was when they found that within a few days, Gina was not only using the remote control perfectly well, but that she also used to choose the porn channel for entertainment...."

24 comments:

Seeing Red said...: Is it a bad thing I'm linking this & the women & cerebral/depression posts together?

See? They stimulate their vaginas, too!; 1/15/13, 8:54 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: Women watch porn far more than they admit.

Watching porn also releases those dopamines, and it has the positive value of stimulating you to want sex. Second to exercise, getting laid every day is probably the best way to ward off depression.

Like everything in life, this can be good or bad, depending on the situation.

Women are fighting with their desire to use withdrawal and deprivation as a weapon against men. Most of the time, this is self-defeating.; 1/15/13, 8:58 AM
traditionalguy said...: But do the porno watching chimps have opposable thumbs?; 1/15/13, 9:03 AM
Unknown said...: Maybe Gina needs a mate.; 1/15/13, 9:04 AM
Wince said...: Gina looks like a Bonobo chimp, which are known to be different behaviorally.

The bonobo is popularly known for its high levels of sexual behavior. Sex functions in conflict appeasement, affection, social status, excitement, and stress reduction. It occurs in virtually all partner combinations and in a variety of positions. This is a factor in the lower levels of aggression seen in the bonobo when compared to the common chimpanzee and other apes. Bonobos are perceived to be matriarchal; females tend to collectively dominate males by forming alliances and use sexuality to control males[citation needed]. A male's rank in the social hierarchy is often determined by his mother's rank.; 1/15/13, 9:10 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Gina looks like a Bonobo chimp..."

Read the caption. That's not a photo of Gina.; 1/15/13, 9:11 AM
rehajm said...: Try and photograph a troop of baboons in the wild. Look though the lens and find a shot of a male that's G-rated. Good luck.

Naughty boys...; 1/15/13, 9:16 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: I'm guessing that Spanish porn actors are a hairy lot.; 1/15/13, 9:23 AM
supermagicman said...: I find it ironic that we're being told that 'intense interior lives' of a very smart chimp can be satisfactorily 'enriched' and 'psychologically stimulated' by watching...porn.

Since we've always been told chimps are sooooo much like humans, does that mean the best and brightest of us can be determined by our level of porn consumption?

I think I can get behind this. The dumb humans are addicted to NPR and all the smart ones can't get enough sex.; 1/15/13, 9:40 AM
supermagicman said...: Mitchell the Bat said...

I'm guessing that Spanish porn actors are a hairy lot.

No, you haven't been keeping up with the latest 'studies.' Beings of every race, and now apparently, every species, prefer skinny white chicks.; 1/15/13, 9:42 AM
Wince said...: Read the caption. That's not a photo of Gina.

You mean to tell me I just masturbated to the photo of the wrong chimp, not the sizzling-hot "Gina" I read about?

That damnable mainstream media!; 1/15/13, 9:50 AM
edutcher said...: And soon, no male will be able to satisfy her.

Pity.; 1/15/13, 10:07 AM
LordSomber said...: Has PETA weighed in on this?; 1/15/13, 10:12 AM
rhhardin said...: Vicki Hearne reports on a chimp being studied for language acquisition that spent the mornings in her tree reading Playgirl ("chimps have such tastes"), and its effect on a passing philosopher, in Adam's Task somewhere.; 1/15/13, 10:15 AM
rhhardin said...: The interior lives are dogs are more intersting, honest and readable.; 1/15/13, 10:17 AM
Carol said...: I have a mild dislike of all apes, chimps and monkeys. They're too much like little retarded people to me, without the claim on my conscience of being human.

And yeah retards like porn.; 1/15/13, 10:30 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: And yeah retards like porn.

Retards... and everybody else... likes porn.

Just depends on what kind.; 1/15/13, 11:09 AM
Richard Dolan said...: Gina has an "intense interior life" with a taste for porn?

OK. So when will Gina be publishing her ape-ish version of Tropic of Capricorn? If she can't do Henry Miller, perhaps she will channel that intense interior life into a redo of A Portrait of A Lady. James' original is all about the intensity of interior life, and a different primate's take on the same theme is bound to be a hit.; 1/15/13, 11:10 AM
Kensington said...: "I have a mild dislike of all apes, chimps and monkeys. They're too much like little retarded people to me, without the claim on my conscience of being human."
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Are you saying that would dislike retarded people if not for the "claim" they make on your conscience as humans? Why? What does that mean?; 1/15/13, 11:28 AM
Anonymous said...: 50 shades of fur.; 1/15/13, 11:54 AM
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Oclarki said...: I hate apes as well. They are grotesque creatures that reside in the uncanny valley.; 1/15/13, 12:36 PM
Astro said...: Good god, please don't give her a webcam.; 1/15/13, 1:44 PM
ampersand said...: Pandas don't do porn. Or much of anything else.; 1/15/13, 10:34 PM