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- From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
- Subject: Macaques (Was: Re: Man-eating lemurs)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.040711.16386@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov09.173909.16963@microsoft.com> <BxI69I.7vG@access.digex.com> <1992Nov11.173512.1077@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 04:07:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.173512.1077@microsoft.com> siobhan@microsoft.com (Siobhan Harper) writes:
- >In article <BxI69I.7vG@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
- >>>--Siobhan, Queen of the Macaques
- >>
- >>Are you acquainted with Imo, the Archimedes of the Macaques?
- >
- >Not personally (or would that be "simianly"?), but her exploits are
- >renowned. I used to clean macaque cages; it would bother me how often
- >they were able to trick me until I realized, it just meant they were
- >more intelligent than I was. Once I accepted that, we got along famously.
-
- What's a macaque? Assuming that it's a primate, how were they able to
- trick you? I read a post once that there is no cage that a sufficiently
- determined baby lemur cannot escape. Perhaps it's a primate thing.
-