Thursday, December 31, 2009

Posted via web from "Here's to plain speaking and clear understanding."

Labels: monkeys, robots, science

16:03 cdogzilla

Monday, December 07, 2009

Boom-boom-krak-oo - Campbell's monkeys combine just six 'words' into rich vocabulary : Not Exactly Rocket Science: "Many human languages achieve great diversity by combining basic words into compound ones - German is a classic example of this. We're not the only species that does this. Campbell's monkeys have just six basic types of calls but they have combined them into one of the richest and most sophisticated of animal vocabularies."

Labels: monkeys

21:12 cdogzilla

Saturday, October 10, 2009

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Monkey mothers 'coo' over babies

Labels: monkeys

22:44 cdogzilla

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys: Scientific American Podcast: "In one type of squirrel monkey, the males lack a visual pigment called L-opsin. Its absence renders the monkeys color-blind, unable to distinguish reds and green. Most of the females, on the other hand, see in full color. So the scientists got to wondering: what would happen if they gave a boy squirrel monkey the same opsin that girls have.

Using a harmless virus, the scientists introduced the pigment gene into the eyes of color-blind adults. Lo and behold, about a month later, the monkeys with the new L-opsin gene were able to see hues they’d never seen before."

Labels: monkeys, science

23:48 cdogzilla

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Monkey-friendly tunes shed new light on evolutionary role of music - Times Online: "The idea that human musical appreciation stems from the same evolutionary root as the vocalisations that primates use to bond and alert others to danger is not new, but it has always been hard to test because monkeys do not generally respond to music.

When monkeys have been played music, from classical to hard rock, they generally prefer silence. The sole exception has come from one experiment in which monkeys appeared to be calmed down by listening to the heavy metal band Metallica."
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Now playing on YouTube: The Specials - Monkey Man
via FoxyTunes

Labels: monkeys, music, science

07:08 cdogzilla

Sunday, July 26, 2009

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Indian school for rogue monkeys

Labels: monkeys

07:53 cdogzilla

Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Good News: A New Monkey Is Discovered; The Bad News: It Is Already at Risk: Scientific American: Fire ants, cockroaches, Fox News pundits -- soon to be humanity's only company on the planet.

Labels: monkeys, science

21:16 cdogzilla

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Monkeys Recognize Poor Grammar - A new study suggests that monkeys can speak in accents, form sentences and recognize poor grammar. How many bloggers have language skills that advanced? (Link from Mrs. BoneDaddy, who hardly ever gives me a monkey link because she assumes c-dog already has.)

Labels: monkeys, science

15:02 bone daddy

Friday, June 12, 2009

A chimpanzee apocalypse in Tanzania?: Scientific American Blog: Heading towards a world populated exclusively by humans, cockroaches, and fire ants.

Little x-blogging experiment here ... I added this link to my friendfeed and want to see how an embed of that into this post flows -- or doesn't.

Labels: admin, monkeys

08:57 cdogzilla

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Settling In Here In North Cackalacka
Home projects will probably keep posting on light on my part; however, I'm still clicking 'share' now and again when I get a chance to scan my Reader. If you were to go over there, you'd find items on the following topics in the last few weeks:

• McCain's cluelessness
• Palin's inability to tell the truth
• Sylvester McCoy
• Pedro & Manny
• A Monkey Taking a Shower (video)
  
• The Flaming Lips
• Calexico
• Cussing in a Comic Book

This weekend's project was to stain the fence. Home Depot didn't have a sprayer to rent so I bought one of those 2 gallon lawn sprayers and used that. 16 (!!!) gallons of stain later, it turned out pretty nice. If I do say so myself. I'm pretty sunburnt and worn out. The next project I take on will be an inside job: either painting the kids' room or the living room. Tile backsplash, some landscaping, sealing the garage floor, not to mention all the unpacking still to be done ... I can see where this owning a proper home thing is going to keep me busy

My other ongoing project is to get my books out of attic boxes and into my LibraryThing. Once out of the box, they're either going onto a bookshelf or on BookMooch. Trying to pare down to essentials and books I'm saving for Blake and Amelia when they get a little older. So far, it's been tough putting anything up for Mooching, but I'm making the hard choices to get down to a manageable number.

Labels: Books, monkeys

21:03 cdogzilla

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Who wants a trunk monkey?

Labels: monkeys, TV

15:48 bone daddy

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Chimps beat college students in memory test. Not really fair inasmuchas the chimps probably weren't stoned.

Labels: monkeys, science

20:48 bone daddy

Saturday, September 08, 2007

Gorilla on drums.

Labels: monkeys, music, youtube goodness

13:34 bone daddy

Saturday, August 18, 2007

I'd like to point out that some of the monkeys on monkeysuicide.com, which chronicles in photos the demise of sock monkeys by various methods, were clearly murdered. Death by Optimus Prime sticking a gun in your mouth? How's that suicide?

Labels: monkeys

23:28 bone daddy

Monday, June 25, 2007

My Nature Documentary, by Jack Handey
Will Monkey and Giraffe be reunited?

Labels: monkeys, non-monkey animals

09:17 cdogzilla

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Is everyone watching planet earth on the Discovery channel? I've been consistently stunned by these things. Even when it's a subject like "Great Plains" and I think I won't be interested I see something amazing. Not only are they showing things that I've never seen before - and I'm a veteran nature documentary watcher - they're filming them exquisitely. The action shots are spot on. Other shots are so mesmerizing I'm convinced this show is a massive hit among stoners. They've turned nature into a special effect, and I don't mean that to sound cheap because, let's face it, special effects are cool.

Let me put it this way. A couple of weeks ago I saw a completely serviceable documentary on PBS' Nature series about scientists searching for a giant (20+ feet) crocidile. They didn't find any and the show was mostly about the people and the not finding. People don't appear in planet earth and they seem to find everything weird and beautiful that you want to see. For an hour, nature is powerful and dominant and lush and in focus.

If you can, try to catch the one with the Gelada monkeys that play and tackle each other while on near-vertical cliffs.

Labels: monkeys, non-monkey animals, sharks, TV

22:52 bone daddy

Friday, February 23, 2007

You just wait Wild chimps seen using weapons. Of course, it wasn't a pistol. Yet. Also, they used weapons to hunt, not to settle bets so they have some work to do.

Labels: monkeys

16:55 bone daddy

Thursday, September 14, 2006

The Ordeal of SpongeBob the Monkey

Labels: monkeys

17:08 cdogzilla

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Monkey Hate Clean
Bathroom Monkey [Submitted by Fioremonkey, always on the lookout for a new system.]

Labels: monkeys

10:58 cdogzilla

Thursday, August 31, 2006

When you're done with your sock monkeys, make a dress out of them.

(Wait, are you ever done with a sock monkey? It's not like they break or anything ...)

Labels: monkeys

23:02 bone daddy

Bobo the Monkey Tank Goes to Mongolia
You might think it's a bedtime story I made up for the babies, but it's actual news! Which may end up being converted into a bedtime story for the babies.

Labels: monkeys

14:43 cdogzilla

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Hanuman Roams the Earth?
"He climbs up trees, behaves like a monkey and is a strict vegetarian, but he is no god ..."

Labels: monkeys

14:15 cdogzilla

Friday, May 19, 2006

Humanzee
All I can think is that there must have been some Helena Bonham Carter-ish proto-chimps back when the proto-humans were broadening their horizons, so to speak.

Labels: monkeys

20:47 cdogzilla

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Bear vs. Monkey
I don't know why but this article made me think that it's time to update Rock-Paper-Scissors and do Bear-Monkey-Shark or something like that. Bear obviously beats Monkey. Monkey would beat Shark (sharks would be helpless in the jungle, totally unable to swing through the trees -- and I never heard of Shark Kung Fu). Bear vs. Shark is tricky though ... can anything beat Bear? Bears can swim and, if dolphins can beat sharks, I'm sure a bear would maul a shark. Maybe the game should be Bear-Monkey-Ditka?

Labels: monkeys

10:15 cdogzilla

Friday, May 12, 2006

New Monkey!
Kipunjis: closer to baboons than mangabeys (the last "new monkey").

Labels: monkeys

08:31 cdogzilla