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- From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
- Subject: Re: Macaques (Was: Re: Man-eating lemurs)
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- References: <BxI69I.7vG@access.digex.com> <1992Nov11.173512.1077@microsoft.com> <1992Nov21.040711.16386@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:23:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.040711.16386@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
- >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?
-
- An Old World monkey belonging to the _Macaca_ genus. There are about a
- dozen species.
-
- > 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.
-
- Macaques are very resourceful monkeys. The first primate astronauts were
- rhesus macaques. Japanese macaques are the monkeys that "see no evil,
- hear no evil, speak no evil."
-
- -- Herb Huston
- -- huston@access.digex.com
-