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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.
Where's Charlton Heston when you need him?
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The monkey to correctly enunciate a single English word, and in the company of fellow monkeys slips into fits of screaming:
probably 'cause you walked on all four the previous night!
I, for one, welcome our new Macaque overlords.
Sorry.....
Of blankness, I know nothing.