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Monkey Justice

03-03-2006 12:49am

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Capt'n Midnight

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http://www.inq7.net/opi/2003/sep/23/opi_mltan-1.htm

"Cheating! Cheating!" one can imagine the capuchin monkeys screaming out in a rather innovative experiment conducted to find out if monkeys had a sense of fairness. The results, published in the journal Nature, suggest that in at least one species, there may be something like "monkey justice."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=13679918&dopt=Abstract

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#2 03-03-2006 12:51am

monkeyfudge

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Ah yes. I read about this a while ago.

There's nothing quite like the sweet taste of monkey justice!

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#3 03-03-2006 12:57am

cormie

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Just an observation monkeyfudge, the last 2 posts I've seen about monkeys, you've been the first to reply, that and the fact your handle has "monkey" in it and theres a monkey in your sig:D

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#4 05-03-2006 3:38pm

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quite an interesting article...... and an amusing read....

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