Monkeys Use Perfume, Too.

Alex

Matthias Laska, a professor of zoology at the Linköping University in Sweden, discovered that monkeys use perfume too!

In most of these cases, the scientists speculate that the leaf mash might have been used to mitigate topical skin infections or repel bugs.

But Laska and his team found that of the plants used by the Mexican spider monkeys, only wild celery is known to have insect-repelling compounds and antifungal properties. The other plants simply smell good.

The scientists, therefore, conclude that self-anointing "may play a role in the context of social communication, possibly for signalling of social status or to increase sexual attractiveness".

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Oh I got an awful present last year from my husband's idiot uncle. I draw, and apparently they think that just b/c I draw, I'll like anything that has to deal with that. Even if the present is for small children. I'm 30yo, and they got me this frickin How to Draw the Disney Princesses crap.
I couldn't even fake liking the present. I just felt insulted.
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One Christmas I gave a woman a "How to host a murder" game. Four years later she gave it back to me, still in it's original packaging. She had no idea I was the one who gave it to her. She regifted my present. How awkward...
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The worst present I ever gave anyone was 10 years ago at Christmastime. I had asked my son daily for 2 months what he wanted for presents and he kept putting me off. So I bought him a helium tank and a bag of balloons. Mothers can be so cruel...
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The description states that that deer/candelabra thingy as a gift, but why is the picture of the item in a store? Sounds like someone took a picture in the store, and made up a story to go with it.

I was hoping for more fantastic ones at the link, but most were unremarkable and just plain crap. The Elvis duck was bizarre, but nothing beat the one you showed here.
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