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.

Re:good golly

[unity100]

actually what i think is no human here, especially anyone from the western countries that megacorps that suck the africa dry and powerless, hence unable to solve the famine are from have zero right to talk about a humans right to live.

When shit walks.

[Anonymous Coward]

I think they already flew their feces at them. The feces grew arms and legs, sprouted eyes and bigg lips, started talking some tribal language that sounded like "wahh tu to ee *clique*claq*", started chucking spears at their own kind, and then spread aids to their families in Los Angeles CA and New Orleans GA.

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.

weeeeell welll

[unity100]

my english and my country may be "underdeveloped" but you apparently have been able to understand what i said despite my underdeveloped english in all your glory.

and before you even twitch your developed brain further to get what i mean, i would like to remind that not the language or the words or the linguistics of, but what is contained therein in an excerpt of text is all that matters.

human rights declaration was not in english. jean jacques rousseau, voltaire and others did not write the books that transferred the ideals that made the "western countries" of today what they are in english, erasmus did not preach his ideals that brought humanism into renaissance scene and eventually today, in english, french revolutionaries, who have put forth the first modern type of government, type of which you are now blabbering here and trying to lord over me, were not speaking english, aristoteles, diogenes, perikles did not know a word of english, and if they knew im sure they would speak it worse than me.

yet, you, a blabberscrap of an excuse for a citizen of a "developed" country, are openly trying to lord things that you know zilch about, over me, despite your ignorance of what made the country you so tout itself.

first, learn child. then speak. and if you are going to post blabberscrap on slashdot, try to do it as an anonymous coward, not actually with your own nickname.

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.