Monkeying around with language

ScienceNOW has a short summary of research on monkey calls.

An Introduction to Monkey Grammar?: "Primates produce new alarm calls in a way that might resemble human language [Read more]"

Hardly a surprise though, even some humans demonstrate this ability.

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Ancient Traditions: Poo Flinging

From The K Chronicles

[Hit-Tip-2-Phyrangula] 

This is fun ...

 I just discovered a nice blog tribute to ... oh ... but telling would spoil some of the fun. This series of posts at The Armchair Generalist is still fun, even if it is after Halloween.

Here, have some more fun:

How Superman Defeated the Ku Klux Klan

TV Shows Little Girls Watch

Monkey Business: Scientist Monkeys Around With The Economy

Internet Rules

Piano Stairs are fun too.

I Love the Internet

Dance Like a Monkey

[via Pharyngula. PZ seems to get all the good stuff first.]


Some of us may also recall an older generation of Monkees ...