monkey uprising

What’s up with primates

1. From our monkey-annoyance labs: monkeys hate flying squirrels. (from @davidreevely and many others, thx).

Show me “peel the banana”

A troop of performing monkeys instructed in the martial art of taekwondo has taken revenge on their trainer.

Linkage

1. The Tories spent double what Baird said they did wrapping a GO train in propaganda

Linkage

1. Another interview from the Daily Beast with Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner

Plant of the Ape

Caught on video: A monkey robbing a nursery in Texas. Might have co-opted a human as an accomplice.

There’s a trick with a knife they’re learning to do

Uh oh:

Monkey Uprising: Holiday Edition

Item the First: They turn on the humans

Monkey Uprising: They Want our Food

What, bananas aren’t good enough?

Monkey Apologists

A monkey terrorist is on the loose in Tokyo, the cops can’t catch it, and how are the authorities dealing with it?

Monkey Uprising: Spain is Lost

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans.

While Humanity Slept: Monkey Uprising Update

Much like the war in Afghanistan, the monkey uprising went into a bit of a lull through the winter, but now that the warm weather is back the primate insurgency is in full throat, and the monkeys are not being very discriminating in their choice of targets:

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