Funny Monkey Pictures

Funny Monkey Pictures - Also a Baboon and Dobin

• Mischievous Monkeys
• Baboon Supporters?
• Monkey given the bird
• Interesting Facts about Monkeys 
• Desmond and Dobbin

1) Mischievous Monkeys

2) More Funny Monkeys, or to be precise, Baboons

Baboon Supporters?

A safari park is warning visitors to remove England flags from their cars after a group of baboons began stealing them.

The animals have built up a huge collection of flags in the monkey enclosure at Knowsley safari park in Merseyside. Keepers at the park say the 120-strong troop of baboons have been known to help themselves to windscreen wipers but have now turned their attentions to the World Cup flags.

Safari Park general manager David Ross told the Liverpool Echo, 'Many people are wisely removing the flags before they set off on the safari drive. But if they forget, the baboons usually take them and they've now built up quite a collection.'

Guy thinks that this an evocative picture that once seen won't go away.  My brain keeps asking questions such as, 'Do the Baboons take the flags because the support England, or because they support one of the other nations?'   Also the poor chap in the picture looks sad - what does he know about England?

3) Monkey given the bird

4) Interesting Facts about Monkeys

A collection of monkeys is usually called a troop (not troupe!).  However tribe is other collective noun for monkey, and I once heard a professor of zoology refer to a 'mission of monkeys'.   At the other end of the spectrum, I saw a stand-up comic use a gag 'about a circus' of monkeys, but I think that he made up that collective noun.

The largest monkey is the mandrill (see fiercesome  mugshot opposite).  Monkeys have tails, unlike apes like gorillas who have no such appendage. 

It's true that monkeys spend most of their time in the trees, and the use their tail like a fifth limb.  The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind. Joe Stillwell. 

Barbary Ape Legend of Gibraltar

One of the most enduring legends about monkeys concerns the macaque, or Barbary ape.  The legend has it that if these monkeys all die or are relocated, then the British will be forced to leave Gibraltar.  (Despite their name and lack of tail, they are true monkeys.)

In the second world war the population dwindled to less than 10, and seemed unsustainable.  Then in 1941 prime minister Winston Churchill personally ordered a secret mission.  Two special task forces were despatched in 1942, one to Morocco and another to Algeria, they returned with about 20 Barbary apes.  Today there are over 200 Barbary apes on Gibraltar and it looks like the British will be hanging on to this outpost on Spain's doorstep.

5) Desmond and Dobbin

Desmond, who was a real town dweller, drove his car into a ditch when out on the country roads. Luckily, a local farmer came was passing by with his big strong horse called Dobbin.

He hitched Dobbin up to the car and shouted loudly, 'Pull, Dolly, pull!' Dobbin didn't move one inch.

Then the farmer yelled, 'Pull, Robbie, pull.' Still Dobbin failed to respond.

Once more the farmer commanded in a stentorian voice, 'Pull, Ringo, pull.' Again - nothing.

Then the farmer nonchalantly and quietly muttered, 'Pull, Dobbin, pull.' Immediately the horse easily dragged the car out of the ditch.

Desmond was very appreciative but also very curious. He asked the farmer why he called his horse by a different name three times.

The farmer whispered by way of reply, 'Oh, Dobbin is blind and if he thought he was the only one pulling, he wouldn't even try.'

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