At edible.com, one of the selections is tea paw-picked by monkeys.Edible – MONKEY PICKED TEA No folks we’re not pulling you leg! This rare chinese tea is carefully picked by specially trained monkeys in a remote mountain rehion of China. Legend has it that monkeys were first used to collect tea ten centuries ago, because […]

This isn’t anything new, but we all should stop every once in a while and think about all those monkeys that dress up in rodeo gear and ride dogs. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IolGVHkv1vQ#[/youtube]

What better way to start the New Year than with some Monkey news? Smithsonian.com has a feature on Laurie Santos, an experimental psychologist and researcher who specialised in Monkeys. She has been doing experiments on primate cognition at Cayo Santiago, an island off the coast of Peurto Rico that is a controlled home for rhesus […]

Elephants beware: India is sick of your shit, and are not going to take it anymore. While thieving monkeys may be getting the best of city residents (See: More Monkey Business in India), they are still at a nuisance threat-level. Except when they chase city officials off of buildings (See: Fatal Monkey Attack). Elephants pose […]