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."
Man oh man, I am going to make a fortune off of monkey porn.
That would be so wrong...a possum making money off of monkey porn.
Kramer: Yeah, but before I met up with her, I stopped to look at the monkeys,
when all of a sudden I am hit in the face with a banana peel. I turn and look
and there is this monkey really laughing it up. Then someone tells me that he
did it. Well, I pick up the banana peel and I wait for that monkey to turn
around. And then I *whap* let him have it.
Jerry: Kramer, you threw a banana peel at a monkey?
Kramer: Well, he started it!
Jerry: It's a monkey, Kramer!
Kramer: Well, he pushed my buttons, I couldn't help it, Jerry.
Jerry: Well, I still think it's wrong.
Kramer: Alright, alright, fine. You take the monkey's side, alright, go ahead.
Jerry: I'm not taking anyone's side.
Thank you. I knew a banana joke would come up sooner or later...
Hope you like bananas.
Jesse Jackson or Don King as a child?
What? You collect bananas?
Prostitution among monkeys has been known for a long time, why not porn?
Proof men are animals!
Ping
They pay extra-extra if the monkey model is wearing black stockings and has a penis.
You are right! This new discovery is very series and hugh!
Not to mention stuning!
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| Caught with 1988's Democratic Presidential nomination shoe-in on the aptly named yacht 'Monkey Business' Gary Hart's skirt, Donna Rice, went on to an ironic career campaigning against porn, some time after the Playboy shoot to be sure, while Gary lost the 'Heart' to continue the campaign for the Democratic nomination he led by 20 pts. He of course humiliated himself during the Clinton years whining 'well he got laid' as if that excused chasing skirts before you win the election. I read this article and the image of a 'Monkey' crapping into his hands to throw at passersby at the Zoo stuck firmly in my mind throughout... the moronic repetition of discredited anti-War-Bushisms post war demonstrates the man's career currently consists of nothing but performing like a Monkey at the Dummocrit Zoo to deflect attention from their party's lack of 'leadership'. |
Nope, Michael Jackson next month.
Monkey butt ping.
Wow. I have always known and often said that I am but a simple monkey...but the parallels here are truly disturbing...even to me. My newlywed gets a little randy when she drinks a little wine, so I made more than 50 gallons of homemade wine for her. Homemade wine is fermented fruit juice. I give my wife fruit juice to see her bottom. I truly am a simple monkey.
-"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.-
Maybe looking at monkey butts will help.
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