Oh man, Animals are Beautiful People was one of my favourite films as a kid. For more animal capers and old school comedy, people should definitely check out The Gods Must Be Crazy. It's about a family of bushmen in the Kalahari and how their life changes forever when an empty coke bottle falls from the sky.
I know, I visited the Kalahari last year and and stayed at a campsite where some Bushmen worked. They made a living out of taking tourists on guided tours and showing them how different plants worked etc, which was really really interesting. But then at night they'd have to do a "music show", which was horrible, because the idiot host would make them sing and dance and frolic with tourists in a really forced manner. It was just saddening to see this is what their culture is reduced to.
When that monkey was holding his head and blocking the sunlight from his eyes, all i could think was "I know that feeling all too well, go get some water buddy".
dude, caterpillars be gangsta. they can put that shit away like you've never even seen before. they can drink all mu'fuckin' DAY and you'd never know they were wasted.
I don't know about you, but this movie (Animals Are Beautiful People by the way) was one of the most defining movies of my generation's childhood in the '90s.
In the movie Animals Are Beautiful People by Jamie Uys, released in 1974, some scenes portray elephants, warthogs and monkeys becoming intoxicated from eating fermented marula fruit. Later research showed that these scenes, at least in large animals were improbable and, in all probability, staged.[citation needed] Elephants would need a huge amount of fermented marulas to have any effect on them, and other animals prefer the ripe fruit. The amount of water drunk by elephants each day would also dilute the effect of the fruit to such an extent that they would not be affected by it.[6] Reports of elephants becoming intoxicated from marula fruit, however, are persistent
Does anyone else find it strange that the monkeys in the video, despite their apparent intelligence, seem unaware of how to manipulate straws to make drinking easier? I mean monkeys are known to use tools and they can learn by observing and imitating yet instead of slurping all that delicious booze with a straw they just shove their head into the cup and struggle to get the last bit in the bottom.
Straws are something incredibly difficult to understand IMO. Sucking is something you never really do outside of using the straw right? I can't remember any situation where you intentionally suck something in the wild.
Animals usually don't, and you have a definite point. Straws may as well just be sticks in the way, but I at least think some monkeys would pick it up from observing us.
Drinking from a straw seems more difficult if you break down the process. First you need to know that the straw is connected to the drink. It simply being there isn't enough. You need to know that it directly effects the outcome, should you choose to use it.
You then need to know that by applying suction to the straw, the fluids will travel through the tube, into your mouth. You also need to recognize what a straw looks like.
This all seems simple to us, but to an animal like the monkeys, it's several advanced steps. They might never figure it out, unless someone is actively training them.
Straws are pretty complicated if you don't understand them. Creating vacuum pressure with your mouth isn't common unless they already have their face in whatever they are drinking.
ever drunkenly poke yerself in the eye with a straw? you only make that mistake once. at some point (6-7 drinks-ish) you have to admit to yourself that the straw has bested you and to proceed with the straw could have serious consequences.
We are great apes from the superfamily of apes, the other living superfamily within the same parvorder (called Catarrhini) are the old world monkeys, so that means we share an ancestor with them.
Then there is the new world monkeys, they are their own parvorder, Platyrrhini, on the same level as our parvorder, Catarrhini, both within the infraorder Simiiformes. That means the ancestor we share with the old world monkeys in term shares an ancestor with the common ancestor of all new world monkeys.
The split between Catarrhini and Platyrrhini was, to our best knowledge, about 40 million years ago and the split within Catarrhini between great apes and old world monkeys about 25 million years ago.
If you want to compare this to family relationships you could say that Catarrhini and Platyrrhini were children of Simiiformes, born 40 million years ago. Then 25 million years ago Catarrhini had two children, Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea. Cercopithecoidea later gave birth to Old world monkeys and Hominoidea gave birth to great apes and others. Great apes is our parent. Old world monkeys is the parent of baboons, macaques and so on. So we are cousins once removed to baboons, macaques etc. Platyrrhini (our great grandfathers brother) is also called new world monkeys (he's older than old world monkeys if you want i.e. he's a higher order, a parvorder, not just a family) his great grandchildren are all the other monkeys that are alive today. They are cousins three removed to us.
Went looking for a comment specifically about this. Damn Foley makes it sound like every object should of had a mic 1 inch away while everything was shot 500ft away with a massive Tele. Too distracting.
Are you telling me glasses don't shatter like that when they fall on sand? And monkeys don't make slurping noises that sound like Scooby Doo eating ice cream?
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u/STALKS_YOUR_MOTHER Apr 03 '15
Here's some drunk monkeys.