Oh man, is this how we end up going low carb?
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Here, we now have limits for chicken. I just ordered an incubator. We will make our own chicken. And as a summer project we will improve the greenhouse.
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The sorority house is falling apart:
- freezer broke
- dryers on both floors broke
I confess that I had a total breakdown at the prospect of my chicken (~20lbs) going bad.
I then remembered that one of my econ friends lives in a frat, so I got my chicken transferred. I am very proud of myself for getting that solved
ā¦ No name, fair game.
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what did I say wrong this timeā¦
Nothing.
Iām sure they appreciate your donation. 
oh!
I thought I accidentally said something dirty
THeyāre not going to touch my stuff
āAnd in a dream Iām a different me/With a perfect you/We fit perfectly/And for once in my life I feel complete/And I still want to ruin itā
I confess I am absolutely living that. 4 weeks into the diet break, my guts feel awesome, I feel ālighterā and more athletic, Iām cooking far less so I have so much more free time, food bills are downā¦and all I want to do is get back on the gain train.
Being responsible sucks.
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Iām assuming they are long tailed macaques cos a truckload of them is probably transporting them to a lab to serve as test subjects since they catch these fuckers from my region and other kinds of macaques are generally too smart to get caught in large numbers with conventional methods used by poachers so they donāt bother trying to catch them.
However, ALL these fuckers ARE dangerous if you antagonize them unless they live in places where locals and/or tourists normally feed them and they are pretty cool with humans. Especially the males. Where I lived, we never fed them so sometimes some fuckers would even chase us away from their territories. Their males have an extreme biological urge to fight for dominance to the extent that most will leave their existing troops after they reach puberty if they arenāt offspring of the top brass of the troops they were born in and fight for dominance in other troops. Fuck, even adult monkeys KNOW they arenāt supposed to fuck with the babies and youngsters of the top brass and allow themselves to be bullied by them.
Some ābeta/omega/whatever/ā males will just stay and subject themselves to the hierarchy which means taking shit from different higher ranking youngsters constantly being born and leaving the troop and higher ranking females all their lifespans of around 20 years or more if they donāt get killed in fights. Females will stay with the troops they were born in all their lives and are ranked based on their relationships with the top brass because of the Patriarchy (lol).
Whatās even more fascinating is the long tailed macaques I described where I lived are the dumbest fucks of the āold worldā species. They can only be trained to do basic tricks and are used by individuals in roadside shows for tips in places like Indonesia so Iām assuming their attacking strategies during fights are also the least complex and effective.
The short tailed ones, which are also macaques but classified as a different species or subspecies (I donāt bloody know), however, are smart as fuck. They are used for doing complex tricks in major circuses in countries like China and commercially for collecting coconuts in certain countries around my region, especially in Thailand, by so many people/small businesses there are bloody training schools for them the latter. Iāve seen them collect coconuts in real life a couple of times. Theyāre extremely responsive to commands even on their breaks. Almost humanlike but without the whining lol.
I watched a documentary about one of the training schools theyāre sent to before they are used for collecting coconuts and part of their training is how to untangle their really long leashes if they get tangled up in a tree or something and they can do that shit even better than ME when Iām fucking with entangled wires lol.
Iāve been told these fuckers are smart enough to attempt to go for your jugular if they attack you and really want to kill you.
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I learned that my school has a lab with macaques yesterday.
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I know!!! Thatās why Iām glad theyāre in PA, which is a state for which I hold great affection, but which is also a state which is a decent car ride away from me. Look how distraught I am - four repetitions of the word āwhichā in one sentence, which I would normally pare down by rewording myself, but cannot at present!
Iām afraid of all monkeys, because I know they view me with bitter hatred. And why shouldnāt they? Look at all the cool stuff I have, while theyāre on a transport to CMU to be experimented upon by @anna_5588, whom I suspect of ungentleness!
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I am a huge softie with animals (excluding bugs)
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I know. I couldnāt resist saying it for comedic effect. Although, there are the things you do to meatā¦
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Funny you say that. Iām taking an animal psych class this semester
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Coincidentally, check this out, from todayās NY Times Weekend Briefing email:
Yakei, a female Japanese snow monkey who lives in a nature reserve, violently overthrew a trio of high-ranking males (and her own mother) to move up the ranks and become the first female leader in the reserveās 70-year history. Yakeiās ascent to alpha status surprised both scientists and reserve workers, who are now closely observing her reign.
But mating season could endanger her grip on power. āMating season generally heats things up in Japanese macaque society,ā one primatologist explained. āThe environment becomes more competitive and tense.ā
Yakei says ādown with the patriarchy!ā
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Omg, I saw this too
I did anthropology at uni. As part of a module of primate studies we had a visit to a nature park that had a troop of gibbons. A few years before our visit, a keeper had been decapitated by a gibbon who swung down, smacked the keeper on the base of their skull and knocked their head off.
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Yeah, I would have said no to that field trip.
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Okay I think I need some explanation here. Youāre telling me that this monkey hit the dude so hard his whole head fell off? or perhaps are there some liberties being taken in the retelling of this story?
I have no doubt a Gibbons would be able to break someoneās neck, fracture their skull, etc. Just questioning the head being ripped off the body portion
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