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Attack of the Evil Monkeys From Hell
grrlscientist writes "A new form of communication between wild vervet monkeys and humans is causing humans distress — and a collapse of their food supply. Approximately 300 vervet monkeys in Kenya are sexually harassing the women of a village so they can steal their crops. None of the attempts to discourage the monkeys has so far worked."
It's Illegal to kill a pest animal now? Okay, monkeys are intelligent. alright, they're somewhat intelligent. but they're protected by the gov't why? you can sure bet If it was humans undertaking this same behavior the men would have been right up in that situation laying down the law, I don't see why they just don't deal with it. Sounds like a sympathy beg to me. As for the behavior quirks, Is that really significant? We learned from numerous instances of interaction with monkeys in the past that they easily mimic and correctly apply our methods and tools after sufficient observation. Unless there is proof of the contrary, I'm going to step forward and say that they're just mimicking behavior that they have previously observed humans using.
we should shoot morons like you to help mankind's evolution instead.
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y ?
apparently so.
3-4 of the comments are "Shoot the damn monkeys already" and other fuckola - yay praise for those of you you gun-owning, harley-driving, badass-wannabee excuses of evolution, that post those morondom, those who ever did not see what actualy "badassness" in a real military service while being trained to kill. maybe we should shoot you instead first, to aid mankind's evolution ?
maybe then more intelligent and emotionally stable individuals can take your place, those who would be actually capable of understanding the reason that there is famine in african countries are megacorporations that screw the hell outta them through installed puppet dictators, and the roadside gangs and thugs seizing the food aid thats being sent there as a result. NOT MONKEYS OR DROUGHT. - then actually we would have individuals who would be able to actually say something VALID about how to solve the problem.
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Well, I would recommend that you learn English before you start hanging out on "western countries" web sites.
It just might make someone care about what you have to say. What you just wrote? Not English. Just because your country isn't developed doesn't mean you have the right to bitch about people who live in a country that is. I don't expect you to understand this... but the US alone has 300 million people with 300 million different agendas. Not all Americas work for a megacorp... in fact very few do.
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Just as well we don't have women fighting in the army.
Oh wait . . . .
"You can't fight in here, this is the war room!"
Its only a matter of time before evolution catches up to us, in the form of other species displaying evolved behavior,
without complicated rules and laws to hold them back.
A higly evolved monkey is not going to change behavior because a woman throws a rock at him anymore than
a determined human male will.
Maybe you should ask Jesus what to do
What?
This is a story about women who are afraid to work the fields because monkeys point at the womens breasts and make "sexually explicit gestures" which nobody can confirm, but one women says.
If you can be mentally beaten by a bunch of monkeys and claim you are afraid of sexual harassment from the monkeys...you are too stupid to use oxygen and should stop.
It sounds like these monkeys are more intelligent than the people.