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Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms - [it's not a joke, but it's pretty funny]
LiveScience ^ | January 28, 2005 | Robert Roy Britt

Posted on 01/29/2005 3:25:44 AM PST by snarks_when_bored

Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms
By Robert Roy Britt
LiveScience Senior Writer
posted: 28 January 2005
04:27 pm ET

Would you pay to see a monkey's backside? I hope not. Monkeys will, and I guess that's okay, though it sounds awfully close to the sort of thing that lands guys in jail here in the human realm.

A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey's bottoms. The way the experiment was set up, the act is akin to paying for the images, the researchers say.

The rhesus macaque monkeys also splurged on photos of top-dog counterparts, the high-ranking primates. Maybe that's like you or me buying People magazine.

The research, which will be detailed in the March issue of Current Biology, gets more interesting.

The scientists actually had to pay these guys, in the form of extra juice, to get them to look at images of lower-ranking monkeys.

Curiously, the monkeys in the test hadn't had any direct physical contact with the monkeys in the photos, so they didn't have personal experience with who was hot and who was not.

"So, somehow, they are getting this information by observation -- by seeing other individuals interact," said Michael Platt of the Duke University Medical Center.

Next, Platt and his colleagues want to see how people will perform in a similar experiment.

"At the moment, it's only a tantalizing possibility, but we believe that similar processes are at work in these monkeys and in people," Platt said. "After all, the same kinds of social conditions have been important in primate evolution for both nonhuman primates and humans. So, in further experiments, we also want to try to establish in the same way how people attribute value to acquiring visual information about other individuals."

The study, announced Friday, is far from monkey business. It was sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Cure Autism Now Foundation. The goal is to learn more about the social machinery of the brain with an eye toward helping autism patients.

"One of the main problems in people with autism is that they don't find it very motivating to look at other individuals," Platt said. "And even when they do, they can't seem to assess information about that individual's importance, intentions or expressions."

The monkeys provide "an excellent model for how social motivation for looking is processed in normal individuals," Platt said. "And, it's a model that we can use to explore the neurophysiological mechanisms of those motivations in a way we can't do in humans. For example, we can use drugs that affect specific neural processes to explore whether we can mimic some of the deficits found in autism in these animals."


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KEYWORDS: autism; ethology; femalemonkeybottoms; makingamonkeyoutofus; monkeyporn; science; spankthemonkey; weirdscience; whatgetsmonkeyshot
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This is serious science, so let's have no monkeying around on this thread!


1 posted on 01/29/2005 3:25:44 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored

Good luck!


2 posted on 01/29/2005 3:30:02 AM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
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To: snarks_when_bored

Sounds like those monkeys need a good spanking.


3 posted on 01/29/2005 3:30:27 AM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: snarks_when_bored

Yeah...but will they pay for monkey lap-dances?


4 posted on 01/29/2005 3:31:40 AM PST by RichInOC (...I'm a bad man. I'm a very bad man....)
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To: snarks_when_bored
The monkeys provide "an excellent model for how social motivation for looking is processed in normal individuals," Platt said. "And, it's a model that we can use to explore the neurophysiological mechanisms of those motivations in a way we can't do in humans. For example, we can use drugs that affect specific neural processes to explore whether we can mimic some of the deficits found in autism in these animals."

Translation: Please renew my grant this year.

5 posted on 01/29/2005 3:33:37 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Where does bandwidth go when it is wasted?)
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To: snarks_when_bored; All
My apologies. This has to be posted.


6 posted on 01/29/2005 3:35:44 AM PST by Jet Jaguar (Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof. (O'Rourke))
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To: snarks_when_bored


"What's this about female Monkees?"
7 posted on 01/29/2005 3:36:53 AM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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8 posted on 01/29/2005 3:37:37 AM PST by Still in Denial ("How fortunate for leaders that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler)
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To: snarks_when_bored

Proof men are animals!


9 posted on 01/29/2005 3:41:44 AM PST by Snapple
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To: Snapple
Proof men are animals!

What's a proof man?

10 posted on 01/29/2005 3:44:56 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored

Monkey Butt research Institute at Duke University....Sounds impressive....must keep somebody employed.....


11 posted on 01/29/2005 3:46:06 AM PST by Route101
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To: Jet Jaguar

L.O.L.....


12 posted on 01/29/2005 3:49:02 AM PST by Route101
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To: snarks_when_bored

You cracked me up with that one... that was good, very good.


13 posted on 01/29/2005 3:53:14 AM PST by DanTheAdmin (A blue man in a red state...)
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To: Jet Jaguar

UM... that book look pretty well used.


14 posted on 01/29/2005 3:55:01 AM PST by DanTheAdmin (A blue man in a red state...)
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To: snarks_when_bored
Man oh man, I am going to make a fortune off of monkey porn.
15 posted on 01/29/2005 3:57:01 AM PST by atomicpossum (I am the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.)
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To: DanTheAdmin

LOLLLLLLL!


16 posted on 01/29/2005 3:57:22 AM PST by Jet Jaguar (Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof. (O'Rourke))
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To: snarks_when_bored

Ah, the Genesis of the best weekend thread.


17 posted on 01/29/2005 3:57:26 AM PST by digger48
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To: snarks_when_bored

Very oddly, there have been no banana jokes on this thread....


18 posted on 01/29/2005 3:59:15 AM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: snarks_when_bored

So...is that a banana in your pocket or are you glad to see me!


19 posted on 01/29/2005 4:01:46 AM PST by sierrahome ( Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?)
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To: snarks_when_bored

I wonder if they pay extra if the monkey-model is wearing black panty-hose?


20 posted on 01/29/2005 4:07:09 AM PST by samtheman
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