Monkeys in space

Opening Skinner 's Box, "Monkey Love" Lauren Slater introduced us to Harry Harlow, who was greatly known for experimenting with rhesus macaque monkeys and the way they expressed their feelings in regards to attachment (Slater 132). Slater explains the emotional indifference Harlow felt in relation to the monkeys. Harlow only cared to prove that he was to be the greatest at what he did, experimenting with monkeys and proving that they would be able to love a surrogate mother. Harlow 's idea was to figure out if the newborn monkeys would prefer the feeding surrogate mother made out of wire or the cloth made surrogate mother who had nothing else to offer other than comfort. Surprisingly the newborns were far more attached to the cloth surrogate than to the surrogate mother who was made out of cold wire but was able to feed them. The discovery of the rhesus macaque monkeys preferring the comfort of the cloth made surrogate mother shows us that even though our nature is to try and survive by eating we can still prefer the nurture and need for affection. This all changed as the rhesus macaque monkeys grew to a mature age and it was time for mating, the grown cloth-mothered monkeys turned into vicious antisocial creatures (Slater 144). I was not surprised by this discovery, these monkeys were expected to mate when they had never had any physical contact with anyone or anything before yet they were expected to not only share their cages with another monkey but their bodies as well.…

A dangerous and stupid game that can result in severe injuries or even death, the Independence School District experienced it firsthand with some of the students. It is called the Space Monkey Challenge, but it has also been called the Choking Game. Why do kids do it? They play this game because they do not have to use alcohol or drugs to achieve similar affects. Ariah Rand, a seventh grader, had no idea what she was getting herself into when she agreed to play it. As a result of this game,…

"?." Does that question mark mean anything to you? That question mark represents the unknown number of Black Spider Monkeys alive. The Ateles Paniscus also known as the Black Spider Monkey is a very unique and interesting species. This endangered animal’s body structure is very interesting, this large primate species which has black glossy hair that covers its’ body, and a red or pink body, and four fingers is very interesting. This animal has a very large and strong tail. This species owns the…

Monkey Love The bond between a mother and her child is instantaneous and beautiful. Newborns automatically feel safe when they are first put into their mother’s arms after birth. Feeling safe around your mother as a child is completely normal. Harry Harlow simply wanted to study love and created several experiments for this. His experiments were long meditations on love, and all the ways we ruin it. Harlow was not a very loving man himself, according to his son and students. He also suffered…

Jacobs runs with two themes: be careful what you wish for and you can't get something for nothing. Jacobs illustrates both themes when Herbert urges his father to wish for two hundred pounds. Everything seems to be going fine the next day until Herbert leaves for work. Not long after he is gone, a strange man comes to their house and informs Mr. and Mrs. White their son has been in an accident involving the machinery he was working with and he was instantly killed. The company Herbert was…

Quadrupedalism or knuckle-walking, is where primates have “very strong arms are used to support the upper body weight while positioned on the backs of the finger’s middle phalanges.” For bipedalism, “it’s one of the key features of the human lineage, freeing the hands for carrying and for using and making tools” (Thorpe). The thing that is unique about these two is where the foramen magnum is located at. For apes, monkeys, and similar animals, the magnum is toward the back of the skull, whereas…

In the story The Monkey’s Paw, the reader is likely to experience a continual desire to keep reading the story. The story has skillful foreshadowing and uncomfortable suspense that get the reader nervous and anxious to discover the final outcome. This story involves a enchanted, mummified monkey paw that is said to have the power to grant three wishes to three different people. As the Whites make their wishes, they realizes that they would have been better off without this talisman. How can a…

A Da’s Monkeys Fish the Moon (1980) demonstrates the change in Chinese animation at the end of the Cultural Revolution. The film drives the popular technique of cut-paper in animation forward. On first glance, this film looks as nothing more than as a cutesy film with bumbling monkeys trying to catch a moon. However, the underlying context of the film shows a different story. Monkeys Fish the Moon uses the monkeys’ dynamics and background landscape to show that the Chinese population’s…

Fit in Three characters try to fit in. American Born Chinese reveals the following central theme of being yourself. Three characters pass through despair in order to fit in, and in some way they lost their knowledge. They forgot where they come from and who they are. One of them feels better than others. The monkey king feels better than the others monkeys by Luen Yang writes, “All monkeys must wear shoes”(55). The monkey king tries to fit in by telling all the monkeys to wear shoes. The…

In “The Monkey’s Paw”, by W.W Jacobs, is a story about a “mystical charm”, a monkey’s paw that is brought into the home of the Whites. It was brought by Sergeant Major Morris . The monkey’s paw can grant 3 wishes to three people. Mr. Morris was the second owner and the one before him wished for death for his last wish. Throughout the story the Whites get hold of the monkey’s paw and make all three wishes. For one night a family friend, Sergeant Major Morris came into the household of the…