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Monkeys

  • Voice Choices

    May 16, 2012

    Wild Life

    Ryan McGinley takes over Team Gallery

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    A Psychic Spider Monkey From Staten Island Will Predict the New Hampshire Primary Winner

    Following in the vaunted footsteps of Paul the Octopus (RIP!), Grandpa is a spider monkey who lives at the Staten Island Zoo who has been instilled with the ability to, occasionally, choose a banana or tennis ball with the name of a winning sports team on it, thereby counting him among the ranks of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2011

    Obese Monkeys Extraordinarily Depressing

    Leah Nash/NYT​There are more rhesus monkeys than you'd think out there getting fat. Getting really fat. And it's not their fault; it's because they're being used as research subjects in studies about obesity and diabetes. At the Oregon National Primate Research Center, scientists are keeping a col ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    What Animal Do You Look Like?

    ​I clearly resemble an owl. Enough people have said that, so I simply have to embrace the comparison and make it into a positive thing, kvelling over all the wisdom and potato-chips-inspiring that owls exude. So what about you? Don't say "I have the eyes of a wolverine, the chin of a marmos ... More >>

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