MetaFilter posts tagged with monkeys and science

"I very seldom tell anyone what I actually do, because you just don't know who you are talking to."

fearfulsymmetry — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:14:22 -0800

"The Guardian has been granted exclusive and unfettered access to one of the most controversial research facilities at a British university." Caring or cruel? Inside the primate laboratory. Audio slideshow. A necessary evil - Colin Blakemore. Wise monkeys - Gill Langley.

Pyow-pyow

chuckdarwin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:42:28 -0800

A troop of putty-nosed monkeys in west Africa has been found to use a rudimentary language.

Animal Planet investigates alcoholism in monkeys

finite — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:32:42 -0800

"Significantly, the percentage of monkeys and humans who avoid alcohol is the same." [YouTube]

NewPoopFlingers.com

thedevildancedlightly — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:49:54 -0800

This monkey business has finally gone too far [warning: cackling].

Save the Planet, One Macaque at a Time

fenriq — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:56:46 -0800

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.

Robo-Monkey

gwong — Mon, 13 Oct 2003 07:37:59 -0800

We will create a cybernetic race of robo-monkeys. [via Washington Post]

But can they blog?

Steve_at_Linnwood — Fri, 09 May 2003 10:27:08 -0800

Apparently monkeys cannot write Shakespeare.

plinth — Tue, 06 Nov 2001 09:23:37 -0800

The iTunes article reminds me of an important lesson in computer work: always mount a scratch monkey.

walrus — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 04:56:25 -0800

Monkeys are capable of abstract reasoning according to recent research, which may have "profound implications for the evolution of human intelligence and the stuff that separates homo sapiens from other animals."

Just so long as there are enough bananas to go round, it's OK by me ...

SexyParapalegic — Fri, 06 Apr 2001 10:49:55 -0800

Monkeys head/brain transplanted to another monkeys body. Yeah, some poeple think it's unethical, but I think it's cool. At least in fantasy. Imagine the horror stories if they tried it on humans......

tiaka — Fri, 09 Mar 2001 11:11:04 -0800

Vaccine Prevents AIDS in Monkeys and could lead to human medicine. Exciting huh? Anyway, if that should happen, how much do you think they'll charge for treatment, considering the conspiracy theories and all that?