[wai-ming]

So gorillas didn't make the cut.

They're not going to be too happy about that.

[wai-ming]

So gorillas didn't make the cut.

They're not going to be too happy about that.

[atomic conspiracy]

Ok, if these guys are so smart, why are they stuck in the Borneo jungle?
Can’t they get tech support jobs in India or at least fly to Mexico and sneak over the border?

[Redcloak]

Non-human primates in order of intelligence

1 Orange-utan

2 Chimpanzee

3 Spider monkey

4 Langur

5 Macaque [don't say it in public]

6 Mandrill

7 Guenon

8 Mangabey

9 Capuchin

10 Gibbon

11 Baboon

12 Woolly monkey

13 Janet Reno

14 Rosie O'Donnell

15 Michael Moore (Though, there's some doubt as to his order)

16 a bag of rocks

17 parsley

18 Nancy Pelosi 

[FreedomCalls]

Non-human primates in order of intelligence 1 Orange-utan 2 Chimpanzee 3 Spider monkey 4 Langur 5 Macaque [don't say it in public] 6 Mandrill 7 Guenon 8 Mangabey 9 Capuchin 10 Gibbon 11 Baboon 12 Woolly monkey

Gorillas? Where are gorillas? You can't tell me that gorillas are lower than baboons and wolly monkeys.

[Eaker]

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

11 Baboon

Hmmmm ………………….

Somebody ain’t too bright!

[MissEdie]

13. Alec Baldwin

[AdmSmith]

I will sue the author for defamation!

[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.