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It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Ear
A Calcutta policeman lost an ear during an encounter with a menacing monkey last week. Rathin Thakur noticed a number of monkeys on rooftops and trees while walking to work. Not having seen monkeys in his neighborhood before, Thakur gestured to the monkeys. One of them jumped down playfully, but then stole Thakur’s glasses. While…
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“It’s Me or the Monkey.”
The marriage of German pop star Werner Boehm is in shambles after he moved a monkey into his home. The 10-year-old female baboon can reportedly play the piano and appeared in one of Boehm’s videos. His wife made him choose between the monkey or her, and he chose the monkey.
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Sneaky Monkey Outwits Scientist
Antropologist Scott McGraw declared the red colobus monkey extinct in 2000, but new findings suggest otherwise. Reportedly last seen in 1978, evidence of the red colobus has turned up, including a photograph of a dead one, the tail of a red colobus, and the skin of one killed by a hunter. On hearing the news…
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Killer Monkey Gets Second Chance
After mauling an infant to death and attacking several people, New Delhi residents captured one difficult monkey. The animal will be sent to the city’s Monkey Rescue Center which handles nuisance primates. We’re all for monkey rehabilitation, but what about New Delhi residents who will shudder at the cry, “Monkey outta nowhere!”? Do killer monkeys…
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Real-life Monkey Outta Nowhere
Zookeepers at the Como Zoo in St. Paul were shocked to find a baby white-faced Saki Monkey clinging to its mother, whom the zookeepers didn’t even know was pregnant. Now that’s a monkey outta nowhere.
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Risky But Ingenious Ventures
Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year, and the Year of the Monkey, according to Chinese tradition. Predictions for the Year of the Monkey include “success even in impossible ventures,” “inventions and improvisations galore,” and even if we don’t try “we will be carried forward by the surging tide of the Monkey’s…
