
Monkey Uses Rock as Tool to Smash Enclosure Glass
This goes to show how sad it is that these creatures are imprisoned their whole life all for our amusement. via Unexplained-Mysteries: Footage showing a monkey using a sharpened rock to break the glass at a zoo in China has recently gone viral. The incident, which occurred at Zhengzhou Zoo in Central China’s Henan Province on August 20th, played out … Continue reading

Say, What? Monkey Mouths And Throats Are Equipped For Speech
If you could change the way a monkey or an ape’s brain is wired, that animal would be capable of producing perfectly intelligible speech. That’s the conclusion of a study that closely tracked the movements of a monkey’s mouth and throat with X-rays, to understand the full potential of its vocal tract. Researchers then used that information to create a … Continue reading