Posted on 03/05/2005 2:40:17 AM PST by beaversmom
(bet you can guess who it is)
He told me he began to develop arthritis in his big toe, because everytime that monkey wanted a piece of fruit, he would grab hold of his big toe (hard) and not let go, until he gave in!
Perhaps Lady Jane had a secret way of winning their affection.
In the words of Lennon and McCartney:
Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey...
The best title for this story:
Chimpanzees go APE!
"An old buddy of mine used to take care of orangutans at the Houston City Zoo. An 800 pounds male got loose once and beat the snot out of about five keepers who tried to take him back to his cage. They had to shoot it."
An 800 pound orangutan? What do you feed one of those? Maybe a fifty pound banana? Nice try! Now tell us the one about the 1000 pound German shepherd.
Diet: Plant material, insects
and small but tasty body parts.
What kind of names?
"They are just so rude."
hahahaha
people forget that chimps and other apes are wild animals. They are very very strong . I read somewhere how much psi their jaw pressure was- I forget the figure but it was more than enough to make me realize a bite could severe a body part no problem. Also many people who get those cute little chimps are in for a shock when the chimp reaches puberty. Raging hormones in a chimp are not pretty. Needless to say no one in their right mind wants to be around a super strong sexually jealous primate. Add that to the fact they are territorial you have mayhem in the making.
What about female orangs? How agressive are they?
The reason why I ask is that several years ago I went to the zoo in Singapore (great zoo, by the way), and I sat next to a female orang and her baby on a bench. It is part of a regular tour there. She allowed me to touch her, pet her baby, and feed the baby some fruit. All out in the open, and the mama orang wasn't under restraint.
They claimed that when females give birth and are raising infants, they become naturally docile, but I've always wondered if she was drugged and stoned out of her mind. Seems to me when wild animals give birth and raise babies, that's when the instinct to protect against any and everything kicks in and they're not likely to tolerate outsiders.
"Is it true that your dog will attack YOU if a burglar enters your house and successfully beats the tar out of you? (Said dog thinking, "He [the burglar] must be the new pack leader!")'
That'd be one Quisling of a dog!
Where there is an established pack there is a certain amount of loyalty. Dogs would be useless to one another or to Man if it were otherwise. Also the house is the dogs home too.
A burglar entering my home would have been ripped to pieces just for being on the property. Attacks upon my person by someone outside my family would and did provke savage, all out rage by my dog. I was his main bud as well as the keeper of the electric can opener. We were VERY careful when other people were in our house.
Boyfriends and girlfriends of the family were warned not to grab the arm or try to hold the hand of one of us because that sudden physical contact was all the pretext the dog need to launch his Hound of the Baskervilles routine.
If one member of my family acted as if he or she were attacking another the dog would jump on the attacker. BUT if there was a stranger in the house--anywhere in the house--when one of us acted like we were hitting the other, at the first blow the dog would bolt for the stranger and attack him.
Because ther IS some kind of logic to what animals will do and how they will act, BUT that that logic is only observable rather than actually knowable it is a good idea to treat animal like the animals they are rather than as some kind of 'fellow being of the earth' as these unfortunate people in the chimp story seemed to do.
This really describes LIBERALS also, doesn't it?
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