monkey

A couple in Indonesia was arrested for making their own special version of basko, a local delicacy that typically includes pork or chicken meatballs. But instead of going the traditional route, the couple used monkey for their meatballs–and they didn’t just use the meat of any ol’ primate–they used that… Read the rest

Jyoti Raju is otherwise known as the “Monkey King,” for reasons that become obvious when you see him climb. Apparently, Raju took his moves from monkeys climbing on cliffs, deciding that he could mimic their climbing techniques. Recently, he requested government funding to improve his skills, and so that he… Read the rest

If Darwinism has a soundtrack, this is it. The Symphony of Science combines the evolutionary insights of scientists such as Carl Sagan, David Attenborough and Jane Goodall into an auto-tuned harmonization like none other.
John Boswell, the mind behind the music, says this about his project:

“The goal of the … Read the rest

It sounds like something out of a crappy science-fiction flick, but Zurab Mikvabia, director of the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy in Georgia, hopes to send a monkey to Mars. In collaboration with Russia’s Cosmonautics Academy, the Institute plans to prepare monkeys for a mission simulation that could result… Read the rest

Lo Wung, a 42-year-old entertainer in eastern China’s Hubei province, was on the receiving end of an ironic beat-down when several of his Taekwondo-trained monkeys turned on him during a show outside a shopping mall.
According to reports the entertainer was in the middle of a show when he slipped… Read the rest

In our editorial meeting yesterday the subject of extreme unicycling came up, so this video that I found on The Mercury… Read the rest today seemed blog worthy. Granted, it’s unicycling on a track… but there’s a monkey involved! And I’m pretty sure that once our Assistant Editor Extraordinaire Kyle sees it, he’ll