Just Monkeying Around

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Think how cool it would be if we could swing from a tail

I don't think any other tailed animal, other then monkey family, can do that.

Oh, wait oppossum can hang from their tails.

[MonkeyGirl18]

Several different animals have a prehensile tail, which is the type of tail monkeys like the spider monkey use to hang upside down.

Porcupines and tree pangolins to name a couple more.

[Gingerale]

What !? Porcupines have a tail they can hang from ??

I have never seen a porcupine in real life, not even at a zoo.

[MonkeyGirl18]

They dont necessarily hang from their tail, but they do wrap their tail around a tree branch for support.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I saw a youtube clip of giant rodents, like dog size Guinea pigs, crossing a busy street in another country & all I can say is that I am glad I don't live there!

[MonkeyGirl18]

I really have been meaning to do the next entry, I just got busy and then forgot lol

Another thing to add about the "people understimate how strong primates are" thing.

On Febraury 16, 2009, a woman named Sandra Herold had raised a chimpanzee named Travis. She treated Travis like family. One day, Travis had escaped, with Herold's car keys. Sandra called her friend, Charla Nash, to help her get Travis back into the house. When Charla arrived, she had an Elmo doll, Travis' favorite toy, and when she stepped out of her car with the toy in hand, Travis snapped and attacked Charla. Travis mauled her, tearing off her hands, lips, nose, and eyelids. The attack left her permanently blind.

When the police showed up, they had to shoot and kill Travis after Travis lunged toward them.

Charla had underwent mulitple surgeries, including one of the world's first complex full-face transplants, and is now an advocate for exotic animal bans.

This wasn't the first time Travis had escaped. On October 19, 2003, Travis escaped from Sandra's car and held up traffic at a busy intersection. He was on the loose for several hours. The incident began after a pedestrian threw an empty soda bottle at the car, which went through a partially open window and struck Travis while they were stopped at a red light. Startled, he unbuckled his seat belt, got out of the car, and chased the pedestrian, but missed him. When police arrived, they lured Travis into the car several times, only for him to let himself out of another door and occasionally chase them around the car.

The 2003 incident led the Connecticut General Assembly to enact a law prohibiting the ownership of primates weighing more than 50 pounds (23 kg) as pets and requiring owners of exotic pets to apply for permits. The new law took effect in 2009, and as of Travis' death later that year, no one in the state had applied to adopt a chimpanzee. The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) did not enforce the law on Sandra and Jerome because they had owned Travis for so long, and the DEP did not believe he posed a public safety risk.

(Due to lack of time, I just copy and pasted the last couple paragraphs from Wikipedia. I don't do this to my entries about the different species I research.)

[galled]

I saw that story... Horrific!