They're our cousins
When I was younger I went on an extended family outing to the zoo. We were wandering from cage to cage, the younger of us being fairly interested in God's variety of creation.

We got to the chimpanzee cage, and the creature was obviously bored out of his brains. He just sat there staring at the bars, taking no interest in anything around him.

My uncle decided to liven things up for the little ones by dancing around the cage making monkey noises. Unexpectedly, the chimpanzee perked up and started following my uncle's movements.

Spurred on by this interest, my uncle continued to dance, and the chimpanzee got more and more excited. And started to dance himself.

Except that the chimpanzee livened up his dance by squatting down, having a shit, then scooping it up and lobbing it violently through the bars at my uncle.

Quite a lot of it hit him.

Good thing too - he's a crap dancer.
( String Theory sometimes feeds the sparrows too, Fri 3 Jun 2005, 13:06, Reply)