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."

Comments

good golly

[unity100]

"ut they're protected by the gov't why? "

the "why" there, that single word, nullifies your chances of getting any decent response to what you post. if you are not able to understand that "why", you wouldnt be able to understand what someone explains to you.

Its EVOLUTION - geez

[unity100]

This case says that monkeys are actually doing INTER SPECIES communication.

werent we protecting that many species in order to preserve the nature and provide natural evolution for species ?

there. you have your evolution. and not of the simple kind too - INTELLIGENT COMMUNICATION that is being used to discern the entity in front of you understands your nature, and tells you that it understands your nature. not some exceptional gorilla named koko who has been trained, not some extraordinary parrot that knows 200+ words - your run off the mill monkey in a forest.

im no zoologist biologist or anything, but even i know that this is gold in those sciences.

Re:weeeeell welll

[unity100]

oh yea. i was the one that purported underdeveloped, violent, brutal methods and then came scorned other people because they were not from "a western country" and hence "underdeveloped and not worthy".

what i have spoke about are values fundamental to the existence of modern society. im wondering who is the moron who have been stupid enough to mod down a post which puts forth values of humanism, democracy, secularism, reason being transcendent of languages. because regardless of a bunch of "developed" kids toy with their mod points and discard these values as negligible when they try to lord over their "developedness" on someone from an "underdeveloped" part of the world or not, these values are superior and they are going to stay superior.

Re:weeeeell welll

[unity100]

no. you were not advocating the rights of the villagers not to starve. you were being a harley davidson hard&tough marlboro man of a gun lover. to prevent villagers from starving you need to employ reason, and find the real cause. because if monkeys are averted in this case, they will be just replaced by a local "militia" that is "confiscating" the crops. and that wont make the news in neither kenya, nor slashdot.