New ongoing site feature: Monkey Watch. This one is wearing blue pants if you happen to see him.
At least that monkey doesn’t know sign language. Simians communicating with humans freaks me out: I don’t like thinking that Koko has an inner monologue. I’m not sure entirely why this makes me nervous, aside from the obvious danger of her or another sign language trained ape or chimp escaping back to the wild, training the apes how to communicate with signs, and then launching an interspecies war against mankind. We couldn’t even defend ourselves without violating the Endangered Species Act. Anyway, besides that I’m really not too sure why Koko and her kind make me nervous.
I really didn’t like the monkey flashback scene in Being John Malkovich, either.
