A new species of monkey turned up in India [
NYTimes or
Rediff]. Though the monkeys are new to science, people in the area are quite familiar with them. They call them "mun zala" or deep forest monkeys. It's a stocky, short-tailed, brown-haired creature they have named the Macaca munzala, or Arunachal macaque.
Maybe not that excting for those of us not excited by, uh, mokeys, but did you know this year there have been other new things discovered?
A new species of plec and one of
Neon goby, even more exciting,
a new electric fish was found as well. A quick search turned up dozens of new fish this year.
ABC News says 178 new things found in the oceans this year alone, raising the number of life-forms found in the world's oceans to about 230,000. The big question is, of course, how many of those will
Taste Like Chicken?
The bad news on the little critter front is
1 in 10 bird species could vanish within 100 years, and I bet they all taste like chicken.
posted by Blake
on Dec 16, 2004 -
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Adopt an Ex-Lab Experiment Monkey The
BUAV (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) is sponsoring an adoption program to help care for some 50 macaques that had been owned by a lab in Thailand to be used for scientific experiments. After some publicity, they were pressured into releasing the little monkeys just prior to their last experiment that would have killed them all.
posted by fenriq
on Nov 16, 2004 -
33 comments
I'll say it: It's time someone did something about the Monkeys. Over the last two years they have established a clear cut pattern of terror & harassment in countries ranging from
Eastern India,
Jakarta,
Tokyo,
Sri Lanka or
New Dehli, and the fact remains that it's only a matter of time before these crazed foreign monkeys make their way to places I could actually find on a map, or possibly even America, (possibly in
this guy's pants). When they come, and they will, will our
leaders protect us from their savage rampage? Or is it too late - are they already
among us?!?
posted by jonson
on Jul 22, 2003 -
18 comments
According to UPI, the United States has been offered by coalition partner Morocco its
tide-turning force of 2,000 monkeys trained to detonate land mines. It wouldn't be so unbelievable if the U.S. wasn't already
training dolphins and sea lions to do the same. Considering the carnage already happening to humans in Iraq, this news doesn't inspire thoughts of
happy endings for our animal friends.
posted by XQUZYPHYR
on Mar 27, 2003 -
28 comments
