This is how Planet of the Apes starts as Coronavirus slams the World
Standingstones
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I read another report stating the monkeys were going to the CDC for “research.” They were going for $10k a pop. When a woman working at the front desk of the local motel was asked it she knew about the escaped monkeys she said that she hoped they didn’t kill them. They were cute and she would like one for a pet. Typical Pennsylvanians!
nivek
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Why would she do that?...
Driver who stopped to help when truck carrying 100 lab monkeys crashed in Pennsylvania and put her hand in one of the cages says she now has a cough and pink eye: CDC urges anyone in contact with the macaques to seek medical attention
A truck carrying around 100 monkeys that crashed in Pennsylvania is now sparking fears of infection after a woman who came into contact with the primates began to feel unwell.
Michelle Fallon, from Danville near Scranton, was driving directly behind the vehicle when it crashed, throwing animal crates all over the highway and smashing some to pieces.
Four of the 100 animals escaped and were seen sitting among the wreckage before they fled.
Police say they have now all been accounted for, with three known to have been euthanised.
Fallon said she got out to help both the driver and the animals in their cages, initially believing them to be cats. When she approached and put her hand on the cage, she says the monkey hissed at her.
The day following the accident, Fallon suddenly developed a cough and pink-eye, which became so bad that she had to visit the emergency room at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.
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Driver who stopped to help when truck carrying 100 lab monkeys crashed in Pennsylvania and put her hand in one of the cages says she now has a cough and pink eye: CDC urges anyone in contact with the macaques to seek medical attention
A truck carrying around 100 monkeys that crashed in Pennsylvania is now sparking fears of infection after a woman who came into contact with the primates began to feel unwell.
Michelle Fallon, from Danville near Scranton, was driving directly behind the vehicle when it crashed, throwing animal crates all over the highway and smashing some to pieces.
Four of the 100 animals escaped and were seen sitting among the wreckage before they fled.
Police say they have now all been accounted for, with three known to have been euthanised.
Fallon said she got out to help both the driver and the animals in their cages, initially believing them to be cats. When she approached and put her hand on the cage, she says the monkey hissed at her.
The day following the accident, Fallon suddenly developed a cough and pink-eye, which became so bad that she had to visit the emergency room at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.
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wwkirk
Divine
Impressive. They probably could be trained to use shotguns.
nivek
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Cheeky chimp indeed! Hilarious moment grinning orangutan wraps his arm around tourist and grabs her BOOBS before kissing her as she poses for photos at zoo
This is the moment a cheeky orangutan grabbed a woman's boobs at a zoo in Thailand. The great ape stood behind the tourist for a picture but the pretty tourist was surprised when the creature cupped her breasts in Bangkok's Safari World on June 27. He also planted a kiss on the woman's cheek after flashing a wide grin to amused tourists. Dararat Suwanmai, 24, said: 'I burst out laughing when I realised. He was such a friendly creature.' The orangutan then walked back to his caretaker to be ready for the next tourist to take selfies with.
This is the moment a cheeky orangutan grabbed a woman's boobs at a zoo in Thailand. The great ape stood behind the tourist for a picture but the pretty tourist was surprised when the creature cupped her breasts in Bangkok's Safari World on June 27. He also planted a kiss on the woman's cheek after flashing a wide grin to amused tourists. Dararat Suwanmai, 24, said: 'I burst out laughing when I realised. He was such a friendly creature.' The orangutan then walked back to his caretaker to be ready for the next tourist to take selfies with.
wwkirk
Divine
Horrific incident. Generally though, people in India are too passive in interacting with monkeys, and a number of other types of animals.
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Wild monkeys steal infant, throw child off roof in tragic attack
A gang of monkeys killed a newborn baby in India on Friday, when the they snatched him from his parents and threw him off a roof terrace as family members looked on in horror.
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Over a Dozen People Attacked by Wild Monkey Terrorizing Japanese City
Authorities in a Japanese city are on the hunt for a wild monkey that has attacked more than a dozen people over the last two weeks. According to a local media report, the menacing macaque's reign of terror began earlier this month in a residential neighborhood in the community of Yamaguchi when the creature managed to make its way into a home and scratched a young child. The following day, the monkey burst into a nursery school and bit a little girl, while another attack occurred at an elementary school a few days later. Several adults have also fallen victim to the marauding monkey with the total number of attacks now believed to be around 20 in total.Recounting her harrowing encounter with the frightening creature, a woman told a Japanese media outlet that "I was vacuuming when I heard my child crying, so I turned around and saw the monkey had grabbed her by the legs while she was playing on the floor. It looked like it was trying to drag her outside." Fortunately, she was able to stop the creature before it could escape with her tot in tow, but the animal was soon off in search of more victims and attacked multiple people as it fled the residence, biting them on their arms and stomachs. While those unfortunate enough to run afoul of animal have sustained only superficial injuries, many fear that it is only a matter of time before a more serious incident occurs.
To that end, authorities in Yamaguchi went so far as to issue a warning to residents about the monkey and advised people living in the city to keep their windows closed until the creature can be captured. Police have also stepped up patrols throughout the neighborhood and have placed traps in various locations throughout the community with the hopes of snagging the simian before it strikes again. While there is some debate as to whether or not the attacks are the work of one lone monkey or various aggressive macaques, that question is likely a trifling detail to residents left to fear that they could be the creature's next victim.
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wwkirk
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Ukrainian refugee girl is fighting for life after being attacked by a MONKEY: Child is saved by parents but suffers huge blood loss after animal escapes Moscow zoo
The animal is seen on video viciously biting the helpless child as her parents attempt to free her from the grip of the escaped pet. The girl called Paulina is now fighting for her life in intensive care after the horrific ordeal in an elite village near Russia's capital. Her wounds are described as 'severe'. She suffered lacerations of her arms and legs, and serious blood loss. The girl's mother and father heard her screams and rushed to rescue her. But the monkey kept attacking her even as she was pulled away from the primate by her mother.
nivek
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Well-digging in a community of forest-living wild East African chimpanzees
Published: 06 June 2022
Abstract
Access to resources shapes species’ physiology and behaviour. Water is not typically considered a limiting resource for rainforest-living chimpanzees; however, several savannah and savannah-woodland communities show behavioural adaptations to limited water. Here, we provide a first report of habitual well-digging in a rainforest-living group of East African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and suggest that it may have been imported into the community’s behavioural repertoire by an immigrant female. We describe the presence and frequency of well-digging and related behaviour, and suggest that its subsequent spread in the group may have involved some degree of social learning. We highlight that subsurface water is a concealed resource, and that the limited spread of well-digging in the group may highlight the cognitive, rather than physical, challenges it presents in a rainforest environment.
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Published: 06 June 2022
Abstract
Access to resources shapes species’ physiology and behaviour. Water is not typically considered a limiting resource for rainforest-living chimpanzees; however, several savannah and savannah-woodland communities show behavioural adaptations to limited water. Here, we provide a first report of habitual well-digging in a rainforest-living group of East African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and suggest that it may have been imported into the community’s behavioural repertoire by an immigrant female. We describe the presence and frequency of well-digging and related behaviour, and suggest that its subsequent spread in the group may have involved some degree of social learning. We highlight that subsurface water is a concealed resource, and that the limited spread of well-digging in the group may highlight the cognitive, rather than physical, challenges it presents in a rainforest environment.
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nivek
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Gorillas Develop Their Own Language to Talk to Zookeepers -- Planet of the Apes Coming Soon?
In both the 1963 science fiction novel “Planet of the Apes” by French author Pierre Boulle and the 1968 film of the same name, gorillas were at the lower end of the ape caste system – performing the jobs of the military, police, armed hunters and laborers. In the real world, gorillas are still at the top of the ape chart when it comes to physical strength, but chimpanzees – the intellectuals and scientists in the novel and movie – are also considered to be the smarter apes, being used in higher degree of difficulty experiments like space travel. Chimps are often thought to have the intelligence of human toddlers, which also helped put them ahead of gorillas and orangutans. That changed with Koko, the famous and beloved western lowlands gorilla who learned a simplified form of American Sign Language (ASL) – ultimately being able to understand more than 1,000 signs and form them into comprehensible phrases and sentences. Koko even made sounds on a recorder – not necessarily learning how to play music but showing that she could learn how to change her breathing in order to blow into the instrument. That particular skill came into play in another gorilla study released this where captive zoo gorillas at Zoo Atlanta displayed the ability to make specific sounds in order to gain the attention of zookeepers. Did any of them as for a weapon and a uniform?
Roberta Salmi is a biological anthropologist at the University of Georgia and lead author of a new study on “novel attention-getting vocalization in zoo-housed western gorillas” published this week in the journal Plos One. She and her colleagues in the study were at Zoo Atlanta because zookeepers there were reporting strange sounds coming from many of their lowland western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) at what seemed to be regular times and related to certain activities. Not surprisingly, some of those activities were related to food. When Salmi and her team heard the attention-getting sounds (AG), they immediately likened them to “a sound between a sneeze and a cough that we named “snough”.” Working with zookeeper Jodi Carrigan, Salmi tells Gizmodo that the snoughs appeared to be a sound that the gorillas were making to get the attention of nearby zookeepers. The snoughs were usually single sounds, but occasionally a gorilla made a series of two to four in a row. Salmi, Carrigan, and student Monica Szczupider devised an experiment to determine why these big apes were snoughing.
To keep the experiment non-disruptive, the gorillas were tested in their own cages either in isolation or in pairs, and mothers were tested with their infants. The gorillas were able to see, smell, and communicate vocally with other gorillas in the area. The zoo staff followed their regular schedules and procedures when caring for or feeding the gorillas. Because Salmi and her team suspected the snoughs were relating to food, they devised three test conditions: only keeper (K), only food (F), and keeper holding food (KF).
Visual and audio recordings were made during the tests and the results were just as the zookeepers had claimed – during the “keeper holding food (KF)” tests, the gorillas made the snough sounds ”with a big open mouth.” According to Salmi, this is extremely rare behavior and a unique sound for gorillas. And it wasn’t just one -- half of the gorillas in the test snoughed and continued to snough in the direction of the zookeeper until they received a reaction from them. Even more intriguing was the fact that the researchers never once saw any of the gorillas snough at any other gorillas.
It's easy to understand why the gorillas associate zookeepers with food – the tough question for the researchers was why all of the gorillas made the same half-cough-half-sneeze ‘snough’ sounds to get their attention. Salmi told Gizmodo she believes it has to do with the other reason why zookeepers pay attention to the gorillas.
The study notes that three of the snoughing female gorillas at Zoo Atlanta are related and may have learned the sound and its affect on zookeepers from each other. One of these females has been moved to another zoo and is being observed to see if she teaches gorillas there to snough.
The last question the researchers had was whether the snough was an invention of the lowland western gorillas of Zoo Atlanta or if other captive gorillas make the same sounds … and for the same purpose. A survey of staff from other zoos gave a surprising answer – the snough had been heard at other zoos and was used by both sexes of gorillas. In all, 18 out of the 39 responses noted the presence of the snough by gorillas that had no interaction with the Zoo Atlanta snoughing apes – indicating that the sound could have been invented independently multiple times. This means gorillas in general observe their keepers, link them to food and health, and logically create sounds that are fake illness symptoms, resulting in an appropriate response from the keepers that the gorillas then use to get what they really want – food.
So, gorillas have learned American Sign Language and have now created the beginnings of their own language for communicating with humans. We learned this as the result of running experiments on them that were recorded on cameras. If you’re looking for how close we might be to a real life “Planet of the Apes,” think of this -- the first words uttered by an ape to a human in the 1968 film were said by a gorilla photographer:
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Are you worried yet?
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michael59
Celestial
No, but I, probably just as the gorillas, am wondering what took these so called, "professional researchers" this long to clue in. lol
nivek
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Even chimpanzees like showing off! Scientists record a wild ape showing an object to its mother - a behaviour thought to be unique to humans
Chimpanzees 'show off' by sharing objects that they've just found – and are therefore even more like humans than previously thought, a new study shows.British researchers have captured footage of an wild adult chimpanzee in Uganda, called Fiona, encouraging her mother to look at a leaf that she'd found.
Just like a young human child who's picked up a random object off the ground, Fiona shoves the leaf under her mother's nose for a few seconds before withdrawing it.
The priceless footage shows chimps share objects just to get attention – a social behaviour described as 'sharing for sharing's sake', thought to be unique to humans.
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nivek
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nivek
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This is what happens when two monkeys are paid unequally for the same task.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg
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nivek
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nivek
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