Do monkeys laugh?

[Luxin]

Do they? Or do they just monkey around?

[Flannel Jesus]

You're a monkey. Do you laugh?

[Luxin]

Absolutely. How about you? I'm honored to be a monkey, as you say..... Please don't stop....

[Flannel Jesus]

Case closed!

[LuckyR]

What do you mean by "monkey" and "laugh"?

This is a philosophy forum, after all...

[Flannel Jesus]

What do you mean by "monkey" and "laugh"?

This is a philosophy forum, after all...

What do you mean by what, and do, and you, and mean?

[LuckyR]

What do you mean by "monkey" and "laugh"?

This is a philosophy forum, after all...

What do you mean by what, and do, and you, and mean?

Right?

[Impenitent]

Micky Dolenz does... the other 3 are dead...

-Imp

[Luxin]

What made you think that philosophy has limits? Can you remove the humor from a philosopher?

Signed,
I'll try to give you serious if you like. Been there, done that.

PS, ALLRIGHTY ... What subject did Plato only teach to a select few? (starts with N)

Sorry, I forgot to ask:

What do you mean by " ? "

[Iwannaplato]

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Micky Dolenz does... the other 3 are dead...

-Imp

Maybe he's too sad to laugh.

[Iwannaplato]

You're a monkey. Do you laugh?

I'm an ape.
I also think it's mean - per definition - to mean things.

[Sculptor]

I've just finished reading "In the Shadow of Man", by Jane Goodall.

She single handedly made three major discoveries about Chimps, that learned men had failed to observe.
Here's my review

If there were SIX stars I would give them. I rate this book as the best I have read in years. Goodall writes with skill and ease; with clarity and depth.
Her story is remarkable accounting her long term study with the Chimpanzees of the Gombe. She sensitivly accounts their loves, hates, triumphs and tragedies.
I laughted, I cried, and these beautiful, marvelous and tragic creatures lived their struggles.
She was peronally responsible for three major discoveries about their lives.. 1) tool use, 2) mating habits, 3) meat eating.
Previously thought to be vegetarians lving in male dominated harems. Godall showed that they modify sticks to plumb for termites, use object for weapons and other examples of tool use. That their sex lives are remarkably more complex than hitherto thought, and that they hunt bushpig, bushbuvk, baby baboon and 3 types of colubus monkey and that they relish and prefer meat to other foms of food.
Aside from that her discoveries and observations are more difficult to summarise, and include a whole host of "human-like" activities, such as tickling, self harm, depression, playfulness, consolation, encouragement.
The book includes an appendix on facial expressions for language.
Just read it.

[accelafine]

I've just finished reading "In the Shadow of Man", by Jane Goodall.

She single handedly made three major discoveries about Chimps, that learned men had failed to observe.
Here's my review

If there were SIX stars I would give them. I rate this book as the best I have read in years. Goodall writes with skill and ease; with clarity and depth.
Her story is remarkable accounting her long term study with the Chimpanzees of the Gombe. She sensitivly accounts their loves, hates, triumphs and tragedies.
I laughted, I cried, and these beautiful, marvelous and tragic creatures lived their struggles.
She was peronally responsible for three major discoveries about their lives.. 1) tool use, 2) mating habits, 3) meat eating.
Previously thought to be vegetarians lving in male dominated harems. Godall showed that they modify sticks to plumb for termites, use object for weapons and other examples of tool use. That their sex lives are remarkably more complex than hitherto thought, and that they hunt bushpig, bushbuvk, baby baboon and 3 types of colubus monkey and that they relish and prefer meat to other foms of food.
Aside from that her discoveries and observations are more difficult to summarise, and include a whole host of "human-like" activities, such as tickling, self harm, depression, playfulness, consolation, encouragement.
The book includes an appendix on facial expressions for language.
Just read it.

She also messed with their heads and corrupted them. Awful woman.

[accelafine]

I've heard blackbirds laugh. Birds have an excellent sense of humour.

[attofishpi]

I've heard blackbirds laugh. Birds have an excellent sense of humour.

Nothing beats a Kookaburra.

In saying that and on point with the thread topic, the sound does remind me of a monkey of some sort I've heard probably on a David Attenborough doco.