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...landscapes and animals. She was also inspired by local retablos?naive pictures given as votive offerings to saints for miraculous recoveries. Unrescued, Kahlo presents herself, bleeding like a martyr. Later she turned to mysticism, and her paintings became overburdened by symbols, with Karl Marx and Jesus meeting Satan and monkeys. She liked to paint herself with simians, often with an arm round her shoulders (Self Portrait with Monkey, 1940). Kahlo's work, like the monkeys, retains a wild, playful quality...
...many times do we have to rerun the Scopes "monkey trial"? There are gaps in science everywhere. Are we to fill them all with divinity? There were gaps in Newton's universe. They were ultimately filled by Einstein's revisions. There are gaps in Einstein's universe, great chasms between it and quantum theory. Perhaps they are filled by God. Perhaps not. But it is certainly not science to merely declare...
...local culture. Yes, they say, the preachers did some good things, such as curtailing cannibalism and incessant warfare. "But they also put a stop to a lot of our fun," says Puloka. As well as fanifo, underwater rugby (played among the breakers with hilarity and all manner of monkey business) seems to have been a casualty of British decorum. Traditional culture survives, though only in more formal incarnations, such as kava ceremonies and dance. Despite the hot climate, it is still forbidden for men or women to go shirtless in public...
Study after study bears him out. In one of De Waal's experiments at Atlanta's Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, for example, pairs of capuchin monkeys (the species favored by organ grinders) have to cooperate in dragging a heavy tray so they can get the food on it. They quickly figure out how to do so, sharing the effort and the food. But when the food is placed on one side of the tray, giving only one monkey access to it, they still share. "There is no need for the one who gets all the food...
...another experiment, De Waal and his students reward two monkeys for a task by giving them cucumber. It's not a favorite food, but they happily go on doing the task anyway. Then the scientists begin giving one of the monkeys grapes--like caviar for a capuchin. At that point, the monkey that is still getting cucumber refuses to play. Says De Waal: "It's like me discovering my colleague, who works just as hard as I do, gets a salary that is twice the size of mine. I was perfectly happy before...