Results tagged “monkeys” from South Bay Pets

Sure they're cute in their little monkey suspenders, but chimps are amazingly strong.

And as sadly demonstrated a few weeks ago whe a chimp nearly mauled a woman to death, they can be nasty.

But exactly how strong are they? Figures range from five to eight times stronger than human, a figure which doesn't really make sense when held up to scrutiny. I mean, yeah, sure, they're that much stronger than me, but I sit at a desk all day long and the only thing I ever lift are potato chips.

An interesting article in Slate magazine examines the issue. Yes, they're stronger than the strongest human, but not THAT strong.

A chimp on four legs can easily outrun a world-class human sprinter. But it sounds extreme to suggest that humans are only an eighth as strong as chimpanzees. Consider that a large human can bench-press 250 pounds. If the "five to eight times" figure were true, that would make a large chimpanzee capable of bench-pressing 1 ton. It's just the sort of factoid the zoo staff might tell you to keep you from knocking on the glass.

Photo from Slate.com 

In a successful bid to attract customers, a restaurant in Japan has hired an army of monkeys to wait on tables.

The plan, albeit disgusting, is being met with enthusiam from customers. The simians only work two-hour shifts, which is more than some of the monkeys I got working for me here.

Be sure to check out the video. And pay no attention to the fact that the person who wrote the headline has absolutely no idea what an apostrophe is.

And the service couldn't be any worse than what I got the other day at the drive thru.

This can't turn out well.

Monkeys embedded with some kind of trasmitters can move objects with their minds!

Didn't these people see "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes"?

Two monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to adjust for the size and stickiness of morsels when necessary, scientists reported on Wednesday.

I hereby pledge my undying loyalty to our monkey overlords.

It's home to 33 gibbons, the small tree-swinging apes native to Southeast Asia, and the only facility in the world with all four genuses of gibbon. The center studies gibbon behavior and breeds several family lines, hoping to prevent extinction of the fifteen gibbon species. The primates live mostly in enclosures with room to swing and climb. They graze on lettuce, bananas and peppers (and the like) nine times a day. To prevent outside disease from reaching the apes, I had to disinfect my shoes before entering the compound. High fences keep out the coyotes, lions and local teenagers.