Chimps knocked off top of the IQ tree

The Times ^ | 4/15/2007 | Jonathan Leake and Roger Dobson

[Eaker]

while baboons, often considered relatively bright, were ranked 14th.

11 Baboon

Hmmmm ………………….

Somebody ain’t too bright!

[albee]

"Rosie didn’t make it in again this year I see."

Bwaaaaah-Hahahahaha!

LOL.....I'm still laughing.

[MissEdie]

13. Alec Baldwin

[AdmSmith]

I will sue the author for defamation!

[Wormwood]

I hate the primates.

Some mornings, I really do hate all us primates.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Hey, where are the dolphins, parrots and poodles?

[RightWhale]

Self-awareness is determined by the mirror test. If the animal will groom its forehead fur by reflection it meets the criterion. The orangutan, chimp, and gorilla can do this. Humans would too, if they had forehead fur.

[ApplegateRanch]

They also suggest that the ancestry of orang-utans and humans may be more closely entwined than had been thought.

“It appears the orang-utan may possess a privileged status among human kindred,” said James Lee, the Harvard University psychologist behind the research. “It is even possible that an orang-utan-like forager occupied a pivotal link in the chain of descent leading to man.”

So THAT'S why they are known to go ape over, and even alledgedly occasionally rape, redheads!

(Ducking and running) ...may explain a few things about the doings in Irish pubs, too.

[ApplegateRanch]

The study comes at a time when orang-utans are endangered as never before. Once widespread throughout the forests of Asia, they are now confined to just two islands, Sumatra and Borneo, and are highly endangered as a result of habitat loss and poaching.

Odd how these studies and the expeditions finding new species all seem to have this common thread: either they, or their area, is a suddenly 'threatened as never before' species or habitat.

Oil palm plantations? Find 50+ new species living there!

"Global Warming" threatening Antarctic ice shelves? Quick; let's find a few dozen new species dependent on them!

It is no coincidence that most of said expeditions & studies are funded by aggressive, agenda-driven environmental organizations...though their motives are pure and unquentionable, since they don't take money from the evil petro-agro-chemical industrial complex.

[colorado tanker]

The writer of the novel, 'Anthony Burgess' , claimed that the term "clockwork orange" was a Cockney phrase, but most philologists agree that there has never been any such phrase until the appearance of his book. Burgess lived in Malaysia during the 1940s, and the Malay word for man is "orang", from which "orangutan" (man of the jungle) is derived. There is, however, an English slang expression for a gambling device known as the "one-armed bandit" in the U.S.: a clockwork fruit (the gambling device typically is referred to as a "fruit machine" in the UK due to the depictions on its dials; clockwork in England is a word applied to a plethora of mechanical devices beyond just time-pieces). The anthropomorphic look of a "fruit machine" (thus, its name "one-armed bandit" in the U.S. for its roughly man-sized shape and "arm" giving it a humanoid appearance) may well have given rise to the term "clockwork orange" in Burgess' fertile mind as Alex, through conditioning, is turned into a robot (which a fruit machine resembles). Gambling also is a game of chance, and Alex literally is gambling with his soul. This is made explicit, particularly in the film, when Dr. Brodsky tells Alex -- who is upset over the use of Beethoven on the soundtrack to the atrocity films and claims he has been enlightened -- to take his chance, as he will be free in a fortnight (roughly the time an annual vacation in an English resort such as Blackpool -- the Las Vegas of Britain -- with its scores of fruit machines, would take).

The writer of the book, 'Anthony Burgess' , lived for a time in Malaysia. After returning to London his wife was assaulted by four American GI's during the black-out, thus giving inspiration to this story. In Malay, the word "orang" means man, [this is also part of the derivation of the word 'orangutan', the other half being derived from "hutan" meaning jungle] therefore, the title of the story is actually a pun on the British expression. Rather than a clockwork fruit, it is a clockwork man, which is, of course, exactly what Alex has become by the end of the film.

From the IMDB. "Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well."

[ApplegateRanch]

Where do they fall on the Bell Curve?

A little to the right of Jesse Jackson.

[SunkenCiv]

Well put.

[happygrl]

Rosie didn’t make it in again this year I see.

OBLIGATORY Rosie pic ALERT!

[happygrl]

I wonder how that man is doing ?

Did he live ?

[dighton]

The attack, on a married couple, was in early March of 2005. St. James Davis, the husband and the more severely injured, wasn’t discharged from the hospital until mid-August of that year, and according to this article still faced more surgery.

[Chode]

Oh Woe is me... Why's everybody pickin on me???

[happygrl]

PERFECT!!!!