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- Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!siobhan
- From: siobhan@microsoft.com (Siobhan Harper)
- Subject: Re: Macaques (Was: Re: Man-eating lemurs)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.165154.6597@microsoft.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:51:54 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <BxI69I.7vG@access.digex.com> <1992Nov11.173512.1077@microsoft.com> <1992Nov21.040711.16386@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov21.040711.16386@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
- >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.
-
- Macaques are Asian monkeys; I used to be a keeper aide for a troupe of
- lion-tailed macaques. Basically, their technique was to have some of them
- distract me while the rest snuck up on me and took what they wanted. Once
- I was on a ladder cleaning browse (snacks) out of the upper-level baskets,
- when they decided they wanted it. Two of them distracted me, while three
- came up behind me, reached through the wire, and grabbed the bag of browse
- and started pulling. I had the choice of letting go, or falling off the
- ladder, so I let them have the bag. It was deliberate on their part, no
- doubt about it.
-
- Yeah, primates are clever. Once you combine that much brain with opposable
- thumbs, the possibilities are staggering.
-
- --Siobhan, who wishes she had a prehensile tail
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