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To: BenLurkin

Make note to self. Leave the monkeys be.


5 posted on 01/25/2022 8:45:33 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

Real life story in the Chronicle of Higher Education once—some grad students had to do various tasks in a research lab for the university’s grant project. As a couple of students on different work shifts went past the monkey cages the monkeys strained and reached out, slashing their upper arms.

The students came down with high fevers and weird symptoms and were in the hospital for a long time with organ damage. Grad students tried to form a union to get better safety guidelines enforced but it didn’t work out.

Not a good job to take.


21 posted on 01/25/2022 8:59:27 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: crusty old prospector
Leave the monkeys be.

Actual good advice. During a business trip in India got taken to Agra to see the Taj Mahal, the grounds of which are peopled by thousands of monkeys. We were told not to even look them in the eye as they would respond aggressively. One could run up and bite chunks off your face before you'd know what was happening. Nasty little buggers. They are only limited to throwing feces at visitors in the zoo because of the cage.

26 posted on 01/25/2022 9:02:17 AM PST by katana
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