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The Primate Police
An anonymous reader writes "LiveScience reports on research indicating that certain monkeys act like cops in a group. When they removed the enforcers, the monkey society fell apart. The rest of the monkeys quickly formed cliques with friends and family and interaction between the groups ceased. More interesting is how the monkeys 'vote' for their law enforcement officials, by baring their teeth to show deference. From the article: 'When an individual receives these voting signals from most of the group, it shows he is well respected--or feared--and he becomes the new sheriff in town.'"
Finally Fox can combine some of their best programming: Cops and When Animals Attack!
My other sig is funny.
Bill Monkey: Who's the owner of this canopy? ...
Monkey Dubois: I, I am. I bought the place for 12 bananas in '79 and
[Will throws feces at him]
Little Bill Daggett: You, sir, are a smearing son of a bitch! You just roadappled an unarmed man!
Bill Monkey: He should have armed himself if he was goin' to decorate his tree with my friend.
Little Bill Daggett: You'd be Will Monkey out of Missouri; smearer and fecal slinger of innocent women and children.
Bill Monkey: I'm Will Monkey and I've shat on most everything that walks or crawls; and now I'm here to brown you Little Bill for what you done to Ned.
Little Bill Daggett: [walking toward Will] All right boys, he's only got one handful left. When he throws, cowpie this son of a bitch down.
My work here is dung.
I for one welcome our new monkey overlords.
*bars teeth*
At least we don't throw excrement at each other.
Thank the Gods for bombs and bullets!
"with their freedom lost all virtue lose" - Milton
just more proof that we're related to our simian cousins -- even in our society, certain monkeys decide to become cops.
And sometimes even president!
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death