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Monkeys Pay for Monkey Porn

Posted by michael on from the is-that-a-banana-in-your-cage-or... dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Give a monkey some spending money, and he'll blow it on pictures of women monkeys. He'll also pay to see dominant monkeys. But you'll have to pay him to look at inferior monkeys. That's the upshot of a study out of Duke that was designed to explore the 'social machinery of the brain with an eye toward helping autism patients.' Next up -- seriously -- the researchers want to run the same test on Joe Sixpack (sans the monkey business)."

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  1. Do they - ? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    Do they spank the monkey as part of the experiment?

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    1. Re:Do they - ? by Bazman · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think they call it 'Spanking the human'....

    2. Re:Do they - ? by plover · · Score: 4, Funny
      If a million monkeys at a million internet terminals downloaded porn...

      And how is this different from the internet today?

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  2. So... by jtbauki · · Score: 5, Funny

    ....the next time you get caught looking at porn, you can point to this article and say, "Hey it's not me, it's evolution, baby."

  3. Oooh ooh Aaah Aaah! Oooh ooh aaah aaah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Grunt, grunt, grunt ...Screeeeeeeeeeech!

  4. So... by mattiwatti · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where can I download this monkey porn?

  5. err... by Heem · · Score: 5, Funny
    FTA:
    The rhesus macaque monkeys also splurged on photos of top-dog counterparts


    Anyone else get a completely different meaning out of that then they intended?

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  6. Missing Option: by raehl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Crack.

    Oh, wait, this wasn't a poll?

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  7. Hahaha dumb monkeys by wileycoyoteacme · · Score: 5, Funny

    i stopped paying for porn the day i discovered a web browser!

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  8. some spending money by cgenman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Give a monkey some spending money, and he'll blow it on pictures of women monkeys.

    I wish they would stop referring to the students at Duke like that.

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  9. sorry, no dice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My boss doesn't like it when I call him "baby".

  10. Re:Humans already do this by lachlan76 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well you can get naked chicks on the internet for free. Why pay for another cable channel? ;)

  11. Oh, great by andreMA · · Score: 4, Funny
    Just when the AOLers finally got booted from USENET, we'll have (another) group of primates arriving to endlessly post "MEEEE TOOO!!!!!"

    Or perhaps the change will raise the overall level of discourse. Hard to say.

  12. And how do researchers spend money? by adityapk · · Score: 5, Funny

    >Give a monkey some spending money, and he'll blow it on pictures of women monkeys

    Give researchers some money, and they'll spend it on monkey porn

  13. Re:experiment by Feztaa · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess I'm objecting to the notion that being male is the norm.

    Don't be silly. Women only exist on the computer screen.

  14. Hot ot not, eh? by Ceriel+Nosforit · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.hotornot.com/r/?eid=BRG8K8H&key=EUB
    I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry...
    *GG*

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