Monkey bottoms.. There may be something to this evolution thing after all

[SoCalDem]

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

http://www.livescience.com/animals/050128_monkey_business.html


Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms

By Robert Roy Britt, LiveScience Senior Writer

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.

snip

[Mythsaje]

1. Monkeys are frighteningly similar to humans, aren't they?

Damned primates...sex crazed maniacs. All of them.

[thunder rising]

2. Or is it the other way around?

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. Oook.

Check out GD/p I have no doubt that both candidates most rabid supporters only resort to words because vocalizing and striking the ground with sticks doesn't translate so well to a digital medium.

[Mythsaje]

5. Excuse me, but...

:rofl:

That's a GOOD one.

[JuniperLea]

7. And you can't fling poo on DU...

Not literally, anyway.

:silly:

[PDJane]

8. Thank you. I needed that. eom

[rateyes]

3. Animals!!

Next thing you know they'll be playing with their "bananas."

[TransitJohn]

6. Dance monkeys, Dance!

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-1431038195362274085&hl=en

[Contrary1]

9. Not unlike people all over the world who continue to pay... (you know what's coming)

while watching the chimp show his ass. Unfortunately, most of us are not willing participants.

[Kceres]

10. "Welcome to the Monkey House"

Vonnegut, am I right?