Monkeys Cured of Color Blindness
Two male squirrel monkeys were given gene therapy and now the normally color blind animals are able to distinguish between shades of red and green in color vision tests. In normal situations, female squirrel monkeys can see a full range of colors, but males cannot see red or green.
Is this the beginning of the end of monkey sexual discrimination? Only time will tell.
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Amazing one-man Looping Song by an Indie Musician
The description of this video says he made it all in one take- and it really makes a great song in the end. Give it a minute for the looping to kick in. |
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The Big Bang explained in Two Minutes
Here’s a really nice concise explanation on how the big bang worked – has nice accompanying CGI that helps in the explanation. |
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The Sophisticated Hunting Methods of Wild Owls
Amazing, specialized hunting machines – that poor lemming never had a chance. |
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Pit Bull Viciously Attacks News Anchor With Love and Slobber
News anchor Randene Neill is repeatedly and savagely licked, almost to death, by a pit bull named Ginger. So much for the pit bull’s nasty reputation. |
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Monkeys in a swimming pool
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The Monkey Aristocracy
The Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey has a permanent display called “Musical Machines & Living Dolls”, featuring over 700 antique automata, including quite a few fancily-dressed mechanical monkeys from France.
Though largely lost on passing schoolchildren and tourists at the Morris Museum, these monkeys were once a scathing critique on French aristocracy. There is a monkey on a early sort of bicycle called a velocipede, a monkey harpist, a monkey violinist, two small monkey musicians, and an incredible monkey dandy under a large glass dome. All are dressed in fine silks with hair done up in the style of French Royalty. These automata were a post-French-revolution joke on the former rulers and current dandies of France. So popular was the theme of foolish aristocratic monkeys that it was common in French homes, and whole rooms were decorated around the theme.
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Alcoholic Monkeys of St. Kitts
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The Vervet Monkeys of St. kitts are known to raid local bars for a drink or two. Studies have found that the percentage of alcoholism in these monkeys matches the percentage of the human population – most drink in moderation, 12% are steady drinkers, 5% drink to the last drop and some are even teetotalers!
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Smallest Monkeys Alive
These pigmy marmoset monkeys are fantastic samples of animals rarely seen in the wild. Their bodies are about 5-6 inches tall and they have claws instead of nails.
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World's Most Disturbing Primate
I know all animals are beautiful in a “life is beautiful, so are the creatures living it” kind of way, but this Snub-Nosed Monkey is the creepiest thing ever. The lack of lips, the slits for nostrils, it looks like a skull. Gross!
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