Baseball-Playing Chimp Validates Internet

Ryan Broderick — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:10:15 +0000

Every few days something truly insane comes along and reminds us all what the internet is for: pornography and videos of animals acting like people. So, thanks to the fine folks at Urlesque, here's a clip of a chimp in Japan playing baseball. Knowing what we do about Japanese television, this is either from their "Frontline" or their "Fox and Friends."

In unrelated Japanese baseball news, there is this amazing clip, which, sadly, has no chimps, but is still pretty cool if you like baseball.

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Pigs In Zen (Or Maybe They're Just Drunk)

Dave Bry — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:00:34 +0000

What animals are truly most like human beings? Humpback whales, who mate for life and communicate with complex, melodic songs? The upright-walking, chronic masturbator bonobo chimps? Bears, who seem to want to inhabit our homes and drive our cars? An article in today's New York Times points to a different answer, and one that shouldn't surprise anyone who's looked in the mirror lately. As Natalie Angier reports, "Last week, an international team of biologists released the first draft sequence of the pig genome." According to team-leader Lawrence Schook of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The pig genome compares favorably with the human genome."

Pig hearts are like our hearts, he said, pigs metabolize drugs as we do, their teeth resemble our teeth, and their habits can, too. "I look at the pig as a great animal model for human lifestyle diseases," he said. "Pigs like to lie around, they like to drink if given the chance, they'll smoke and watch TV."

Pigs also understand how mirrors work, and can play videogames with joysticks.

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Baseball-Playing Chimp Validates Internet

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