This is our page for the monkey comic book. Don’t miss the new strip posted on Wednesday; Sandra and Woo has been updated three times this week.
- Caption: It’s always fun to watch goofy young monkeys in the zoo. But one shouldn’t forget that they are also quite clever guys.
- Caption: Orangutans are one of the very few species which are able to recognize them- selves in a mirror. Some take great interest in their looks.
- Caption: In a 1952 study, a young Japanese macaque was fed dirty sweet potatoes. Shortly after it got the great idea to wash them in the river before eating, all the other young macaques adopted this behavior as well.
- Caption: More bananas!
- Caption: But most impressively, the gorilla Koko is able to communicate with her trainer using more than 1,000 words in sign language.
- Caption: Conversations are a bit one-sided sometimes, though…
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Monkey see, monkey do
It’s a cool new strip, me like!
More bananas
Koko the Gorilla brought to you by Chiquita bananas!
Well, we humans are nought more than tall chimpanzees anyways.
Woo in panel 3: “Oh well, there goes the neighborhood!”
Of course Koko only asks for bananas, they never taught her the sign for “freedom”.
One can have more fun than a barrel of monkeys (So that’s how they’re shipped?) by just checking the strip regularly.
Someone here likes animals.
Koko looks like she’s performing a jutsu xP.Oh and that’s not Woo,it might be a relative of his.That or just an obligatory raccoon.
Hey, at least she knows how the mind of a gorilla works. l
I’ve read that Koko could act like an interpreter between Human speech and what the other apes were saying. What conversations happened via this interpretation were, I suspect, probably a bit limited in aspect.
Gorillas, chimps, and orangs are not monkeys, they are apes.
Oh thank you, I’m glad someone said it. But it took three days…
You’re in trouble now, I just sent this to Koko
haha words can hardly express how much i love this one. again the humour and the lovely visual style coming together just right.
We’re all primates in the same monkey house! heh heh heh…
IT’S A MAD HOUSE! A MAAAAAD HOUSE!
I may be late to the party but this comic sure was funny. I love how Koko used her impressive sign language to simply ask for more bananas.
Uh, didn’t other scientists who looked over all this signing chimp stuff come to the conclusion that they weren’t really communicating as their trainers thought? It was all just wishful thinking on the experimenters part.
The experimenter would see a string of not meaningful signs and ignore them until something meaningful came along. Not so impressive.
Like, they put a bunch of monkeys in a room with a bunch of typewriters and found that the monkeys crapped on the typewriters. A little short of Shakespeare.
Heh, sure is one good reason that we didn’t come from monkeys… they’re too intelligent to be related to us! o_~
Orangutans are my favourite kind of monkey species
“Monkey comic book”? Is there a comic book full of monkeys, all monkeys, and nothing but monkeys out there that I haven’t heard about?
I love monkeys!!!! Especially the Japanese Macaque