Monkeys Pay for Monkey Porn 391
An anonymous reader writes "Give a monkey some spending money, and he'll blow it on pictures of women monkeys. He'll also pay to see dominant monkeys. But you'll have to pay him to look at inferior monkeys. That's the upshot of a study out of Duke that was designed to explore the 'social machinery of the brain with an eye toward helping autism patients.' Next up -- seriously -- the researchers want to run the same test on Joe Sixpack (sans the monkey business)."
Ig Noble Prize Material (Score:2, Informative)
Re:So, HOW can monkeys tell who is dominant (Score:4, Informative)
A fat female is unattractive because it looks like she is pregnant.
Funny how not all societies associate fat woman with unattractive, then. It's speculated that in our society, fat women are unattractive because food (particularly fattening foods) is plentiful (and hence fatness is common), and associated with being unfit; whereas better off people eat healthy food and keep fit.
A bold man is attractive because his head looks like a big.. well, you know what.
Assuming you or others find bald heads attractive.... but that's not universally accepted. And frankly, most bald men don't have a red, sunburnt head with a line down the middle, do they?
People in uniforms are attractive, because they they look alike, which means they were so successful that they were able to multiply so much.
More plausible theory (again, not mine); people in uniforms (well, men at least) are more likely to be in dangerous professions where they are willing to risk their lives to protect people. Which would extend to their mate (female) and child; good mate --> attractive.
It's interesting that you don't hear of many strippograms dressing as traffic wardens, after all.
The above points apply to humans, but it's the same with monkeys I guess.
I'd doubt they apply to humans; they seem like some half-baked ideas you pulled off the top of your head. Although maybe you should dress in the uniform of a dictator of a banana republic and see if the monkeys at the local zoo find that attractive?
Re:Ig Noble Prize Material (Score:3, Informative)
Rishathra! (Score:3, Informative)
Since our ancestors killed off our hominid cousins, perhaps it could be used to describe sex between primates.
Of course, they'd have to be intelligent primates. So until we get some kind of Uplift program going, a monkey getting off on human porn would almost certainly find warts and hair sprouting from his palms. (And vice-versa, so don't get any ideas!)
Stefan