Capuchin Molnkey

[Remmie]

[twelvesmallsteps]

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[Stu Monty]

Remmie, they're barbary apes aren't they?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

well i was gonna have trellises and stuff everywhere and stuff like that and it would never be bored as they are like my favorite animal. But its out of the question because my flat mate dont like them thinks there vermin.

What gets me is the fact he wrote "like" in that sentence.

 

Things like that make Simon so adorable.

[Remmie]

Remmie, they're barbary apes aren't they?

Macaques, but Monkeys nonetheless

[VladimirIlyich]

What gets me is the fact he wrote "like" in that sentence.

 

Things like that make Simon so adorable.

 

As adorable as a Capuchin Monkey maybe?

 

Its a marriage made in heaven.

[Magic Sponge]

Homo sapiens + 400,000 years of evolution = Simon.

[rondeco]

 

Superb

[Pony Princess]

Trev + Simon - moon monkey?

 

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[AngryOfTuebrook]

Si, are you aware that capuchin monkeys wash in their own piss to make themselves more sexually alluring?

BBC - Earth News - Sexy monkeys wash with own urine

 

Have you thought about the implications of that? Any time you piss your kecks, your monkey would think that you were up for it. You'd be passed out drunk, wallowing in your own wee and being sexually abused by a monkey. Is that a risk you're prepared to take?

[Remmie]

[Remmie]

[Remmie]

[RobbieOR]

RIP Simon, ynwa etc.

[Guest The Chimp]

Keep away from any and all mangey-looking dogs Zeb, we don't want a repeat of Thailand now do we? Hope you're having/had a blast mate. Also have you heard from th Bitch? Last time I heard he was on the way to the Whitsundays. If you speak to him (or if he's reading this), sending on my best wishes.

[Lee909]

Never seen this thread before.

Sitting in the office pissing myself at some of the posts.

[Remmie]

Keep away from any and all mangey-looking dogs Zeb, we don't want a repeat of Thailand now do we? Hope you're having/had a blast mate. Also have you heard from th Bitch? Last time I heard he was on the way to the Whitsundays. If you speak to him (or if he's reading this), sending on my best wishes.

We're both back home now mate. Found the technique of pretending to pick something up off the floor scared away the dogs

[lifetime fan]

I wanna be like you: Kanzi, the ape who HAS learned the secret of man's red fire and loves nothing more than a good fry-upBy David Derbyshire

 

Last updated at 10:44 AM on 30th December 2011

 

 

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Eagerly he collects wood from the ground, snaps the branches into small pieces and carefully balances them in a pile. Then, taking care not to burn himself, he gently strikes a match and gets ready for a fry-up.

Like all red-blooded males, Kanzi loves messing around with a barbecue. But then, as these extraordinary pictures show, Kanzi is no man. He is a bonobo - pygmy chimpanzee - and his love of fire is challenging the way that we think about our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.

For although bonobo apes and larger chimpanzees use twigs and leaves as tools, none has ever shown such skill for cooking food.

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Skill with a skillet: After slaving over a hot stove, Kanzi the bonobo, tucks in to his creation. These pictures are the first to show a primate's skill at cooking food

 

Kanzi is one of eight bonobos in the care of Dr Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, one of the world’s leading experts in ape behaviour and language. She believes 31-year-old Kanzi’s fascination with fire reveals a deep intelligence.

 

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Dr Savage-Rumbaugh, of the Great Ape Trust, in Des Moines, Iowa, adds: ‘Kanzi makes fire because he wants to. He used to watch the film Quest For Fire when he was very young which was about early man struggling to control fire. He watched it spellbound over and over hundreds of times.’

He was also fascinated by the camp fires his keepers made to cook food. And he was encouraged to interact with humans and copy them. At the age of five, he was making small piles of bone dry sticks.

Hunter-gatherer: Kanzi carries his barbie in a backpack (left) before finding some dry wood and breaking it down to size in much the same way a human would

 

 

Intelligent cooking: The pygmy chimpanzee searches for the perfect site for a camp fire then carefully piles sticks onto a bed of dry leave

He was taught to use matches, a skill he picked up quickly. There’s something eerie about watching Kanzi strike a match. The way he then holds the flame - taking care not to burn himself - is remarkably human.

‘Fire is one of the most important factors in our evolution,’ says Dr Savage-Rumbaugh.

 

‘When humans learned to control fire and to domesticate dogs we began to feel a new level of safety which freed us to become creative and to create more sophisticated cultures.’

‘Fire enabled us to cook meat, which helped break it down and meant we could eat more of it. Plants we cooked on fires were made more digestible. In short, cooking led us to eating better, which meant we developed large brains.

‘We sat around in communal groups cooking, stoking and simply watching the fire - a situation in which language and conversation started to develop.’

Adept: His hands look almost human as he strikes a match and, with a look of satisfaction, watches the smoke start to rise as the fire takes hold

Kanzi - the name means Treasure in Swahili - does not stay close to make sure his fire stays lit. But he does throw on more wood from a distance. And he has learned how to cook. He will take a marshmallow, stick it on the end of a twig and hold it carefully over the flames, ensuring it doesn’t burn.

He can place a grill pan on the fire and cook hamburgers. When he has finished with the fire, Dr Savage-Rumbaugh asks him to put it out using a bottle of water. He will carefully pour the liquid over the flames until it has been extinguished.

Kanzi is now incredibly passing on his skills to other apes. His son Teco, who lives in the same research centre, watches Kanzi as he solves problems. The researchers believe he may learn to make fires, too.

Healthy flames: It's time to set up the barbecue with a makeshift grill and then get the pan on ready to cook some tasty hamburgers

 

Kanzi, who weighs 12st, is the brightest of the apes at the Great Ape Trust. With two other apes at the centre, he uses paper keyboards to communicate with Dr Savage-Rumbaugh and fellow primatologist Liz Pugh.

In conversation with the researchers he points to symbols, known as lexigrams, on the keyboards representing different words.

He has learnt to ‘say’ around 500 words through the keyboard, and understands 3,000 spoken words.

Bonobos are one of the most endangered species and there are around 10,000 to 50,000 left in the wild, all in Africa’s Democratic Republic of Congo. They share 98 to 99 per cent of their DNA with us.

For Kanzi’s own safety, he is only allowed to make fires under close supervision. But his behaviour raises fascinating questions.

And for dessert... he pops a marshmallow on a long stick and toasts it with care making sure he doesn't get his fingers burnt

 

What would happen if he was released into the wild where other bonobos could copy his behaviour? And could wild bonobos learn how to master fire independently just like our own ancestors?

You don’t have to be a fan of the Planet Of The Apes movies - in which intelligent apes threaten mankind’s supremacy on the Earth - to find those questions disturbing.

Or maybe, like King Louie in Disney's The Jungle Book, he just wants to ape us.

 

Special thanks to Great Ape Trust of Iowa -- Great Ape Trust | Bonobos, Orangutans and the study of ape language, tools and intelligence

 

Just right: The barbie ape enjoys his pud... whose turn to do the washing up? Perhaps he can do that as well?

 

 

King of the Swingers: Maybe Kanzi was inspired by the 1976 film The Jungle Book where the ape King Louie (pictured) sings 'I Wanna Be Like You' to the child Mowgli

 

 

 

Now that's a chim-PAN-zee: Meet the monkey who can fry his own burgers | Mail Online

[Pony Princess]

Bumping my favourite simon thread, particularly the analysis of simons fiscal and ethical responsibilities with regard to keeping a...

 

CAPUCHIN MOLNKEY

[lifetime fan]

And It'll never be bored as it's his favouritest animal ever.

[Bjornebye]

this. thread. is. excellent

[Johnny Cougar]

And It'll never be bored as it's his favouritest animal ever.

 

That's all very well for the Molnkey, but what about Simon?

[withnail71]

Is that your minky ?

[setreal]

-KSryJXDpZo

[VladimirIlyich]

 

Who is going to be the first to comment on the IQs of the subjects of this thread given this information?