Monkey Business ( warning may offend some )

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07/20/2005 11:16:09 PM · #1

My son Zemm wanted to share this image with fellow members.

It's an outake from the Zoo challenge.

Whilst we were trying to get shots for the challenge Zemm saw this chimp crap in it's own hand and then carried it around smelling it and offering it to other chimps for them to smell also.

I was laughing so much I was unable to take shots but Zemm didn't miss the chance, not so my other younger son and wife they were nearly sick.

A good day was had by all.

doctornick

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07/20/2005 11:19:29 PM · #2

OMG!

yido

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07/20/2005 11:20:56 PM · #3

Don't ever hold hands with monkeys.

milo655321

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07/20/2005 11:22:14 PM · #4

Ok. While the picture did give practice to my gag reflexes, I'm curious as to whether that is a way for the chimp to check out his health. "Does this smell/look normal?" I wonder if any primatologists in the crowd (we must have dozens ...) would have an answer to that.

jab119

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07/20/2005 11:34:22 PM · #5

thats sick...but funny...the gorillas at the Houston zoo used to throw their poo at on lookers. they would go off into a corner and do their business and try to conceal it in their hand behind their back. they would pace back and forth as if they were choosing a "victim" or "target", then they would let the dung fly. I watched a little baby in a stroller take a clump to the face. His mom got a direct hit in the chest. That has to be about the funniest thing I have ever seen in person.

James

CorySmith

07/20/2005 11:58:11 PM · #6

he is recycling

CorySmith

07/20/2005 11:58:56 PM · #7

Firsty

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07/21/2005 12:07:00 AM · #8

I was there about a month ago
and it looks like the same one that time it did not stop at just smelling it... made me feel ill

Keegbow are you coming to the GTG on the 30th.... zoo plus the rocks bridge opera house etc
meeting at circular quay at 10.30 am

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07/21/2005 12:14:04 AM · #9

Coprophagia, playing with excrement, is considered to be an abnormal behavior and is commonly exhibited by both Gorillas and Chimpanzees in captivity. It is not cute, it is not funny, it's positively sad. One of the great crimes we commit as humans, IMO, is the keeping in captivity of apes, which are highly intelligent, independent creatures that do not do well at all when confined. Of course, some zoos and animal parks do a far better job at this than others, but there are untold thousands of chimpanzees, especially, cooped up in tiny cages in research institutions and marginal zoos, and kept by "trainers" (who can only train and control them with force) for use in movies and commercials, for which they (the trainers) are very handsomely reimbursed.

Sorry to be a wet blanket. But I think it's a scandal. This creature is not a "well animal".

Robt.

Edit to add, re the thread title: these are apes, not monkeys. Monkeys have tails. These animals are very closely related to us, and are much more intelligent than monkeys.

Message edited by author 2005-07-21 00:16:45.

Makka

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07/21/2005 12:14:56 AM · #10

And they're supposed to be intelligent!! I wonder how my friends would feel if at a party, I crapped in my hand and then walked around with it on a try like hors d'oeuvres offering free samples!!! Ewwch!!!

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07/21/2005 12:18:03 AM · #11

Originally posted by Firsty:

I wish I could but we will be out of town that weekend. It's such a good day at the Zoo.

I have already let lentil and wimbello know what's going on. Hope you all have a good time.

Joey Lawrence

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07/21/2005 12:25:46 AM · #12

For some veeeryyyy stranger reason, when I read the title I just knew it would be a monkey sniffing his own crap.
Seriously.

Message edited by author 2005-07-21 00:27:08.

07/21/2005 12:29:44 AM · #13

Originally posted by bear_music:

Lighten up Bear...this was meant to be a light hearted thread about something my 10 year old son and I found funny.

As for the title it was used in the term of "monkey business" as to be up to mischief.

I have used the description "chimp" in my original post meaning shorten version of the word chimpanzee ( manlike African ape) if thats is O.K. by your standards.

07/21/2005 12:50:02 AM · #14

Sorry to be a wet blanket but it's a subject I feel passionately about; I won't apologize for taking the opportunity to heighten awareness of this issue. No disrespect of, or accusation towards, the OP is intended.

R.

07/21/2005 01:03:57 AM · #15

Originally posted by bear_music:

Wet blanket or not I don't believe it's very nice or respectful to rain in on a 10 year olds party for your own animal rights campaign but we do note your apology and no disrespect intended comment.

Wouldn't the world be a nicer place if people were as diligent towards Human rights as they are towards Animal rights.

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07/21/2005 01:18:06 AM · #16

Originally posted by keegbow:

Originally posted by bear_music:
Sorry to be a wet blanket but it's a subject I feel passionately about; I won't apologize for taking the opportunity to heighten awareness of this issue. No disrespect of, or accusation towards, the OP is intended.

R.

Wet blanket or not I don't believe it's very nice or respectful to rain in on a 10 year olds party for your own animal rights campaign but we do note your apology and no disrespect intended comment.

Wouldn't the world be a nicer place if people were as diligent towards Human rights as they are towards Animal rights.

Speaking for myself, I feel as passionately about human rights as I do about animal rights. As for a 10-year old's party (and raining on it) I would offer that an adult posted the thread and I wasn't aware I was doing any such thing, and would add that this is a golden opportunity to teach him that sometimes what appears to be "funny" is actually heart-wrenching, and that compassion is a viable alternative to mirth.

But what do I know?

Robt.

Brad

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07/21/2005 01:37:18 AM · #17

"Smell"
"Huh?"

"Smell!"
"sniff - auck!"

"Taste"
"Huh?"

"Taste!"
"chomp - akkk!!"

"Taste like sh*t?"
"Yeah...tastes like sh*t"

"Hmm - good thing we don't step in it.."

circa 1970, Cheech & Chong...

coolhar

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07/21/2005 01:41:58 AM · #18

Originally posted by keegbow:

Wouldn't the world be a nicer place if people were as diligent towards Human rights as they are towards Animal rights.

You can say that again.

07/21/2005 01:43:44 AM · #19

Originally posted by keegbow:

My son Zemm wanted to share this image with fellow members.

Bear this is why I stated it was my son who wanted the image posted and you should have known that your comments would be directed at him.

Please also I don't need you to lecture me on when and how to teach my son anything.

I will add he has learned two things from this, one being keep out of forums and secondly the world is full of grumpy old men.

Now this is FUNNY !!

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07/21/2005 01:50:41 AM · #20

[quote]I was laughing so much I was unable to take shots...[/quote]

I guess I've learned my place; laughing at captive primates eating their own excrement because of their shattered mental health is acceptable. Gorillas taking a dump are funny.

"Grumpy old men" commenting fairly reasonably that there's something wrong with this picture are party poopers (pun intended). I won't trouble you anymore with this. And. of course, you are perfectly free (indeed,it's your absolute RIGHT) to teach your son whatever values you wish.

Robt.

Message edited by author 2005-07-21 01:51:23.

nsbca7

07/21/2005 01:55:32 AM · #21

Originally posted by keegbow:

Originally posted by keegbow:
My son Zemm wanted to share this image with fellow members.

Bear this is why I stated it was my son who wanted the image posted and you should have known that your comments would be directed at him.

Please also I don't need you to lecture me on when and how to teach my son anything.

I will add he has learned two things from this, one being keep out of forums and secondly the world is full of grumpy old men.

Now this is FUNNY !!

You think all this is funny? I would agree with Robert on this one. Laughing at one of God's once proud creatures as he daily dregades himself for the entertainment of the gawking people who pass by his public enclosure is not something I find funny either. You posted this. Don't try and pass all this off on your son.

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07/21/2005 02:03:06 AM · #22

Originally posted by nsbca7:

Originally posted by keegbow:

Originally posted by keegbow:
My son Zemm wanted to share this image with fellow members.

Bear this is why I stated it was my son who wanted the image posted and you should have known that your comments would be directed at him.

Please also I don't need you to lecture me on when and how to teach my son anything.

I will add he has learned two things from this, one being keep out of forums and secondly the world is full of grumpy old men.

Now this is FUNNY !!

You think all this is funny? I would agree with Robert on this one. Laughing at one of God's once proud creatures as he daily dregades himself for the entertainment of the gawking people who pass by his public enclosure is not something I find funny either. You posted this. Don't try and pass all this off on your son.

I never passed this off as my son's image I used this image as my parting gesture to Robert that is what I thought FUNNY. If you cared to look it is linked to my profile.

Please don't critisize me for taking a photo of a Gorilla taking a crap I didn't put him in a Zoo. You have no idea about myself and my family and our involvement to animal welfare and if you did you would realize your comments are misinformed.

nsbca7

07/21/2005 02:05:22 AM · #23

Originally posted by keegbow:

I was laughing so much I was unable to take shots ...

A good day was had by all.

You are the person who made the joke out of it. I think it is sad. You have a right to your sence of humor and I have a right to my indignation.
By the way, it doesn't look like the ape was having such a good day.
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Message edited by author 2005-07-21 02:07:44.