Humane Monkeys Psychology Species 
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2009
It's a TLC show about humans that adopt monkeys and treat them as their children. Monkey business is big business in the United States, where some people pay up to $5,000 to adopt a monkey of their own, often a capuchin monkey, which can grow up to 22 inches and 9 pounds. This is seriously weird stuff. Who suffers?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 21, 2012
Joking aside, the instant viral popularity of this video seems to me to be speaking to some deep-rooted fears in the human psyche. I suspect that, like so many of what seem our primal instincts, the real basis is far more psychological. Everyone knows you bait eagles with babies in Alpine meadows, DUH.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory in the scientific sense, but rather, a capacity whereby we have an internal theory of what is going on in other people’s minds. Just eat the food. 1208724109.
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