7314 - Primatology

[scottobear]

From the Monkey/SWAT news article earlier :

Truelove is spearheading the department's request to purchase and train a capuchin monkey, considered the second smartest primate to the chimpanzee. The department is seeking about $100,000 in federal grant money to put the idea to use in Mesa SWAT operations.

Wait a minute... aren't humans considered to be primates? The ape suborder Haplorrhini includes gibbons, orang-utans, gorillas, chimps and humans, I think.

Comments

[tarpo.livejournal.com]

Does Arizona teach evolution in its schools?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Good quesiton. I suspect so.

[silentyrs.livejournal.com]

They knocked us down a few rungs. The ape higher order says we are to be imprisoned. Please return to your homes and stay there until an officer comes to collect you

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

As long as they keep me in fresh fruit and let me keep Newt, I should be ok.

Mmm... Oranges.

[missv.livejournal.com]

Here's a handy little table.

I say no jobs for monkeys unless they get a regular paycheck, health insurance, and a 401Kk plan just like the stupider primates on the SWAT team.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I'm just waiting for the ultimate...

"THAT MONKEY STOLE MAH JORB!"

hmm.. the linkie isn't working.

Monkeys can have my job....and I'll sit in a tree all day eating fruit and picking nits.

[missv.livejournal.com]

My linkie? Hmmm...it works just fine for me. Here it is in longhand: http://anthro.palomar.edu/primate/table_primates.htm

Re: Monkeys can have my job....and I'll sit in a tree all day eating fruit and picking nits.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I've got a lot of nit-pickers wher eI work already.

weird.. I simply cannot get to that site.

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