Flossing Monkeys

Mar 13, 2009 12:43

Japanese researchers have found some monkeys in Thailand using human hair to floss their teeth and the mother monkeys are teaching their offspring to floss (after meals?)

primate, monkey, mammal

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gargoylekitty March 13 2009, 22:13:33 UTC
But how'd they get the hair to use? Is it weird this interests me more than the flossing?

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meradragon March 14 2009, 00:00:57 UTC
humans shed hair :3

I assume they live near human settlements, and they just pick it up off the ground.

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gargoylekitty March 14 2009, 02:24:05 UTC
I know humans shed but it still seems a bit of hair to just find often enough to make this a habit. *shrug*

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flamingcat March 14 2009, 03:27:01 UTC
You'd like to THINK that, wouldn't you? Well, you KEEP thinking that. You keep thinking that until one day, you walk into your dark bathroom and find A MONKEY STANDING AT YOUR BATHROOM SINK, FISHING AROUND IN THE DRAIN WITH A SMALL STICK AND A BIT OF STRING.

As if there weren't enough animals to be paranoid around *grumble*

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tcklemepnkfloyd March 23 2009, 07:49:55 UTC
this comment, paired with your icon, has been the funniest thing i've seen in a while. kudos.

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flamingcat March 23 2009, 08:23:19 UTC
*bow*

Also, I thought of what would be worse. Just as you're about to back slowly out of the background, you see the monkey's eyes flick up to that luscious, full head of hair you have... and then just as casually flick back down to meet your eyes again.

Cold.

Calm.

Calculating.

(I think there might be a movie in there somewhere.)

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flewellyn March 14 2009, 02:13:21 UTC
We shed hair all the time.

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gargoylekitty March 14 2009, 02:14:45 UTC
True, but that doesn't answer where they got it.

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jesuisgringoire March 14 2009, 06:51:15 UTC
they come in through the windows while we sleep.

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gargoylekitty March 14 2009, 07:01:34 UTC
D:

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blasphemusfish March 15 2009, 00:03:20 UTC
Hahaha I totally imagined monkey flossing becoming a craze, with flossing obsessed monkeys ripping chunks of hair out of tourist's heads and selling strands for sexual favours to over monkeys.

hell yeah pimpin' ain't easy

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pikacheeka March 15 2009, 09:31:53 UTC
YESSSS. You ever hear about the panda who regularly stole tourist's jackets.

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