June 3, 2020

Joe talks about monkeys stealing coronavirus vials and other monkey-related topics.



"They believe that monkeys and some chimps are in the Stone Age now...."

11 comments:

tim maguire said...

Stone Age? Why not? In the last few hundred thousand years, there were a number of instances of primates making the jump to some level of culture and technology. Since there are still monkeys quite similar to us, there's no reasons to think that process is done except if we don't let it.

Lucid-Ideas said...

If you want a real monkey of an experience, go to Manaus, Brazil. Manaus is the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas (the Amazon). Try picturing a city of half a million plopped down right smack-dab in the middle of the rain forest. In the same way some US cities are urban, urban, urban then suddenly farmland, Manaus is the same way. You'll be driving along a paved road with 2 and 3 story buildings and then bang...road ends and you're in the jungle. It's surreal. Anyway, back to the monkeys...

The monkeys of Manaus are famous. They have no fear. They've lived with urban humans so long they've developed quite a reputation for problem-solving. They even have manners. You'll be eating at a café and the monkeys have evolved 'gestures' to be fed (no, they're very well-mannered and won't steal contrary to what you hear) that could easily be translated as 'please and thank you'. They have even been captured on video 'building things' like structures and tools, and yes, will pass it on to their offspring. I can't find it, but they've been recorded on video mimicking human voices and vocalizations, including things that sound suspiciously like 'hello'.

Highly highly intelligent creatures. I'm sure they used telepathy to communicate with their kin in India to steal the virus as part of some intra-monkey plan for world domination. Planet of the apes, here we come.

narciso said...

Remember how this iteration of planet of the apes started.

wendybar said...

Well Reuters posted it. Happened in India where monkeys run free and wild. Funny, how the Main Stream media has avoided that subject.

Carol said...

Well,then. Only another 300,000 years or so, we'll have some competition.

Wince said...

"Oliver" looks like a Bonobo.

Anyway, remember Jason Sedeikis' Joe Biden impression?

"Tell you what, man, I'm 'monkey-strong,' brother! Hoo, Hoo, Hah, Hah!"

I figured out what I like about Sedeikis' Biden impression: it's Biden the way Biden sees himself: vibrant, strong, street-smart, persuasive.

Which is a real contrast a decade later now that Biden is the presidential candidate himself and so aged.

Fernandinande said...

Joe Talks Monkeys Stealing Coronavirus Viles

Viles, eh?

In a shocking incident of careless handling of blood samples, a laboratory technician in Meerut Medical College was allegedly attacked by a group of monkeys who ran away after snatching three samples suspected to be of COVID-19 patients.

Fernandinande said...

Here's the monkey dragging away the baby. The monkey was part of some pitiful Indonesian circus.

Quaestor said...

They believe that monkeys and some chimps are in the Stone Age now...

They? They who?

The same They who are absolutely certain Neil Aldren Armstrong and Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. faked landed the Apollo 11 mission?

The They who feed the mosquitoes while searching the forests of Oregon for Sasquatch poo?

Or perhaps the They who get well and truly plastered at the whiskey bar in Drumnadrochit after their absolutely, 100% dyed-in-the-wool Earth-shattering iPhone footage of the Elasmosaurus living in Loch Ness turns out to look like Sasquatch poo?

Rogan is like a glob of flubber bouncing between the opposite ends of the bell curve.

mikee said...

My son used an idiomatic expression from his college military cadet days about rioters in a text message to my daughter, and all hell broke loose. The phrase was to "chimp out" and meant, in his cadet days, to irrationally fling poo at your compatriouts, and has no racial connotation in that context. He used it to describe the provocateurs and looters among the better-intentioned protesters. My daughter took it to have racial connotations. I'd never heard the phrase before, and thought their miscommunication was hilarious.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

old: dog ate my homework

new: monkeys stole my lab work