Via Terry, a story on a study of monkeys who will ‘pay’ to look at pictures of female monkey butts. If the world was ruled by monkeys and not humans, it wouldn’t be that different, then. We’d still have Playboy and Hustler, strip joints and Internet porn — but with monkeys.
The interesting thing is that the monkeys paid extra to look at pictures of higher-ranking primates, but had to be paid (given more juice, I mean fruit juice, you perverts) to look at lower-ranking ones. So in my imaginary, Planet of the Apes earth, we’d still have Tatler, too.
Do monkeys try to keep up with the Joneses? Would we feel better about ourselves if we found out that other species are as plagued with vanity and insecurity as we are?
Comments
31 January 2005
10:26
mdmhvonpa
Reading this, Im not sure if I should feel justified or embarrassed …
31 January 2005
10:37
Terry
I guess it depends on if you like looking at human porn or monkey porn.
31 January 2005
11:45
andrea
Does that determine how evolved you are?
31 January 2005
16:05
Terry
I guess it depends on if you feel bad for looking at monkey porn or human porn. If you feel bad, you can dring some monkey beer for the first drink of the day.
31 January 2005
16:32
TuTu
Terry…I think you have way too much spare time!! (it is good though!)
3 February 2005
05:20
eldan
I stumbled across the source paper for this story. The abstract is hilariously written:
“Male rhesus macaques sacrificed fluid for the opportunity to view female perinea”
sacrificed fluid eh?
(from Current Biology)
3 February 2005
08:31
andrea
Geez.
3 February 2005
10:31
neil
No; jizz.
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