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Macaque Monkey Goes Totally Bipedal
Freshly Exhumed writes "Add another bonus point for the Darwinians/evolutionists. A macaque at the Safari Park Zoo in Ramat Gan, Israel has recovered from a near-fatal illness in an unusual way: she has switched exclusively to walking on her hind legs. Given theories of human history that stress the effect of disease on events and changes, as in William H. McNeill's Plagues and Peoples, what if an illness was the cause of the shift to bipedal motion by our evolutionary ancestors, and rote imitation by offspring or another set of circumstances locked it in? No matter, this could be a fascinating study of the macaque's altered brain functions."
Judging from some of the people I've met, bipedalism does not imply higher brain functions are present in the individual.
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Get this monkey a typewriter! I'm in the mood for some new Shakespeare.
Oh hells no. We need to stop this race of super-human monkeys at the source! If we wait much longer it'll be too late.
There are some pictures of the animal in question here.
Praise the Good Lord!! I'll tell you how that monkey was healed, and it was none of your voodoo which craft medicine! The Good Lord saw fit to grant that monkey a second chance, and He blessed that monkey with a miraculous gift! I prayed harder for that monkey than anything else in my good Christian life, and I prayed, and I prayed to the Good Lord that He would see fit to grant that little monkey the ability to overcome the darkness and the flu, and Praise the Almighty Lord Jesus Christ, He has come through for us and that little monkey! Praise the Lord, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Where's Charlton Heston when you need him?
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I, for one, welcome our new bipedal primate overlords.
The monkey to correctly enunciate a single English word, and in the company of fellow monkeys slips into fits of screaming:
Is that anything like the weekend stomach I get? It seems like every Saturday morning I have stomach discomfort and a headache.
in bed.
probably 'cause you walked on all four the previous night!
Nah, it's because his date walked on all fours.
(rimshot)
man, i feel sorry for that dog
(ever heard the saying 'screwed the pooch' - clancy likes to use it)
Nathan Friedly
Note how some moron wasted a point stupidly modding this post down instead of using it wisely to mod the original post up...
... speaking of brain-damaged primates...
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
I, for one, welcome our new Macaque overlords.
Sorry.....
Of blankness, I know nothing.
...and we can pee standing up too!
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
Good thing /. put the link to the story here. I didn't really want the spies at IS at work to see me searching for the terms "Erect Monkey" to get the details...
Construction unions would take umbrage at the phrase for sure.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
It is quite possible to eat upside down. Didn't your school do that experiment in, oh, about 4th grade where a student is held upside down and eats to show that the muscles of the esophagus can defy gravity?
Late last night I was delusional, near coma, experiencing hallucinations and walking on all fours.
And then *poof!*
This morning I was walking around on two legs!
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