Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2024 1:58 pm
Do they? Or do they just monkey around? 
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Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2024 1:59 pm
You're a monkey. Do you laugh?
Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2024 5:24 pm
Absolutely. How about you? I'm honored to be a monkey, as you say..... Please don't stop....
Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2024 5:27 pm
Case closed! 
Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2024 6:13 pm
What do you mean by "monkey" and "laugh"?
This is a philosophy forum, after all...
This is a philosophy forum, after all...
Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2024 6:23 pm
Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2024 9:07 pm
Right?Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 6:23 pmWhat do you mean by what, and do, and you, and mean?
Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2024 9:59 pm
Micky Dolenz does... the other 3 are dead...
-Imp
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Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:14 am
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 " ? "
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 " ? "
Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2024 9:19 am
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Maybe he's too sad to laugh.
Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2024 9:20 am
I'm an ape.
I also think it's mean - per definition - to mean things.
Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2024 9:40 am
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 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.
Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2024 11:26 am
She also messed with their heads and corrupted them. Awful woman.Sculptor wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 9:40 am 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.
Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2024 11:27 am
I've heard blackbirds laugh. Birds have an excellent sense of humour.
Re: Do monkeys laugh?
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2024 12:28 pm
Nothing beats a Kookaburra.accelafine wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 11:27 am I've heard blackbirds laugh. Birds have an excellent sense of humour.
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.