Amazing Feats That Make Monkeys Look Just Like Humans

Our simian friends are said to be our closest living relative but sometimes it’s hard to see a strong likeness. However, there are some monkeys which are determined to remind humans just how closely we’re related. Check out these amazing monkey feats that make them look just like humans!

Get cooking

Apes and monkeys are usually pretty happy with raw fruit but one particular bonobo decided to turn up the heat. After seeing cave men cooking over fire on TV, 31-year-old Kanzi wanted to learn and so his human companions taught him to use a frying pan and utensils. If that weren’t enough Kanzi can even light his own matches - stand back everyone!

Money

A group of monkeys in Connecticut have learned about the value of money, according to research. It took a few months for the monkeys to grasp the concept but eventually understood that the money was a token of value and could be swapped for grapes or Jell-O. Changing the prices of each item changed the monkey’s spending behaviour, showing that they really had grasped the idea.

Prostitution

Once the monkeys understood the basic principle of money, they quickly tired of restricting themselves to grapes and Jell-O and opted for more inventive rewards. Stealing a coin, one monkey swapped it for sexual favours from a fellow chimp who then spent it on a grape.

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Two action novels which celebrate the power of the individual

When it comes to many action novels, it is very often one man or woman against an entire system. The odds are always stacked against them, but they always seem to find a way to get the job done. Here are two such novels.

The Rescue by Steven Konkoly

Ryan Decker as once highly-skilled CIA operative. Now he’s a gun for hire, taking jobs to pay the bills and taste the thrills. His speciality is retrieving victims of abductions. His takes a job to rescue the daughter of a power US senator. But what to him seems like a straightforward mission turns catastrophically wrong. The daughter is killed, his team eliminated and his own wife and son executed by the Russian mafia. Decker is convinced he was set up but is jailed for his part it all.

A decade on, though, someone needs his help again but when he is mysteriously released from prison, Decker is sceptical. A shadowy figure has information that the botched raid was a set-up and Decker is eager for revenge and is determined to take down those who ruined his life.

Wild Card by Stuart Woods

In the latest in the Stone Barrington series of novels, Stone finds his peaceful existence disturbed by an enemy. However, the former police detective, turned private investigator and all-round fixer has enough experience to know how to deal with him.

But it turns out this is just the beginning. The attacks keep coming and the plans get more sophisticated and suddenly Stone finds himself in a high-stakes game against a powerful adversary in which the whole fate of the country is in jeopardy.

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