Especially on this entire lemur thing from Reuters: Lemurs Aren’t So Dumb After All, Study Finds.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lemurs, once believed to be cute but basically stupid, show startling intelligence when given a chance to win treats by playing a computer game, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
Heck, I wasn’t aware that their being dumb was a particular issue. Then again, nobody ever tells me anything.
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OK, let’s pretend that the bad joke referencing your favorite video game was made, likewise the bad joke referencing Cornelius and Planet of the Apes and ditto on any similarities between lemurian* behavior patterns and the average denizen of the Internet. I will, however, note with approval the fact that Reuters deliberately picked a scene from that CGI movie to accompany the story. Or was that the only appropriate one that they had? If so, then I guess that I’m not the only one taken aback by the lemurs’ sudden ascension…
Moe
*And don’t even think about the esoteric puns… heh. Sorry about that.
Am I really the only one whose mind went to “frink”? Say it ain’t so…