Can monkeys dance?

[Plutarch]

This is a serious question. I know monkeys can be trained to dance, but do they actually understand what they're doing, or are they just doing what they were taught? In other words, would a dancing monkey react differently to a foxtrot and to techno music?

 

[Wings]

You're here, aren't you?

 

[Plutarch]

You're here, aren't you?

Yes. Why do you ask?

 

[BossMan62]

This would be a good question for Nipples Magee. Go ahead and ask him, I dare ya.

 

[Plutarch]

This would be a good question for Nipples Magee. Go ahead and ask him, I dare ya.

Is he a member here?

 

[cjh]

Yes.

Yes, they can.

http://touch.dailymotion.com/video/xzdi6_louis-prima-i-wanna-be-like-you_music

 

[NeverEndingMe]

This is a serious question. I know monkeys can be trained to dance, but do they actually understand what they're doing, or are they just doing what they were taught? In other words, would a dancing monkey react differently to a foxtrot and to techno music?

well you could ask SeanH, oh wait, he's a jackass

 

[O-dad's Medium]

I think some might take caution to remember the distinction between monkeys and apes.

Though both are fish.

 

[Plutarch]

I think some might take caution to remember the distinction between monkeys and apes.

Though both are fish.

True. I often misuse those words unintentionally.

I know nothing of fish.

 

[parodyluvr75]

Do the fish know that?

 

[Sean]

I think some might take caution to remember the distinction between monkeys and apes.

Though both are fish.

Ook!!

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Ook!!

while I'm sure you tried, you can't smoke fish like you do crack

 

[IndieSnob]

Shadup, Jen.

 

[Plutarch]

Do the fish know that?

Ah, monkfish. The jewel of the ocean.

 

[O-dad's Medium]

Ook!!

Precisely.

...

And well said, that ape.

 

[O-dad's Medium]

while I'm sure you tried, you can't smoke fish like you do crack

Shadup, Jen.

Thank you, Indie.

The fact that... Jen, is it?.. cannot follow the previous exchange surprises me not one bit.

 

[Plutarch]

Interesting replies, all of them. Are there any primatologists that can shed any further light on this issue? That one chap has a rather interesting baboon as his avatar photo. Perhaps he knows something about this topic.

 

[O-dad's Medium]

My sources say no.