Open Thread: Monkeys

Hosted by a monkey with big eyes

We come from monkeys, swingin' in the trees

Little bit of monkey inside you and me

Monkey in the middle

Monkey on your back

It's a fundamental problem but a scientific fact: we come from monkeys!

- Emerald Rose, "We Come From Monkeys!"

So - completely unintentionally, monkeys have become my daughter's mascot.  Fully half of her toys and clothes are monkeys, monkey-themed, or have monkeys on them.  We didn't plan this or buy these for her, they just sort of... accumulated.

Open thread!  Monkeys are awesome!  They brachiate!  (True fact: I ask the GM to let me take "brachiation" as a skill in every roleplaying game I play in.)  Some of them have prehensile tails!   They have adorable almost-human faces!  What's not to love?  Do you have any cool trivia about monkeys, or stories about seeing monkeys in a zoo or in the wild?  (Alternately, do you hate monkeys, and if so, why?  Did one steal your keys, Night At The Museum-style?)  Share!

~ Kristycat

Wednesday Reminder!  Open threads are meant to be fun, chatty places to discuss anything that doesn’t “fit” into a deconstruction or other regular thread.  This can be something totally off-the-wall and random, or it can be something interesting that a deconstruction prompted you to think of, but which would be derailing to get into in the deconstruction thread.  When in doubt, move it over here - that’s what it’s for! 

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