In January 1976 news broke of a phenomenon. Pictures showed an upright bald ape called Oliver, who appeared to be a cross between a human and a chimpanzee; What scientists refer to as a humanzee. Now 30 years later, he has been found still alive. And with the latest DNA profiling, we can finally solve the mystery of the humanzee.

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. This one almost makes up for it!

Interesting story of a person ordering a monkey via the mail.

My friend’s laughing uncontrollably, and my father finally comes in the basement door and goes, ‘Jeffery! What are you doing to that rabbit?’ And I go, ‘It’s not a rabbit, it’s a monkey, and it just bit the hell out of me.’ ‘A monkey? Bring it up here!’ I’m pouring, I wrapped a t-shirt around my arm to stave off the bleeding, carried the cage upstairs, and I don’t know why I bothered sneaking it in, because they fell in love with it, and it was like, there was no problem at all. 

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My life will not be complete until I eat in this restaurant.

“Yat-chan first learned by just watching me working in the restaurant. It all started when one day I gave him a hot towel out of curiosity and he brought the towel to the customer,” the 63-year-old owner of the tavern, Kaoru Otsuka, told Reuters.

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Dreams can come true.

“It’s a monkey – it’s not like it did anything bad,” a police spokesman said, adding that the animal was still on the loose.

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Controlling a robotic arm with brainwaves.

King Kong has nothing on the Daughter of Sunshine

yes!! A monkey can and will kick your ass in.

  

Capuchin

Originally uploaded by RE Houseman

Flickr is the best resource for finding great pictures of monkeys doing stuff. This group called Monkeys and Apes is one of the better groups. There are currently almost 9,000 pictures and almost 1,700 members.