carsonshepherd
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when packing boxes, watch for spiders, my love 
Fucking monkeys!
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AppleBiter
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BlackShanglan said:And I love youBut wait until you get to the actual question closer to the bottom of thread ... if you admire nerds, this should probably lead you to recognize me as your god.
Having read your entire question, I must now erect a statue to you.
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Equinoxe said:
Many thanks for the information! I don't suppose that you could shoot me a PM with the source for the dates of species identification? It might have more that's useful. (Unless it's Hershkovitz - he's already on order.)
The lack of specificity in identification that you mention is the core issue here. I'm trying to identify a creature that the author calls a "cusharee" (also spelled "cousharie") and which he describes as being smaller than a marmoset, black, and shaped "precisely" like a lion. Back when I was foolish enough to embark on this project, I thought that I had a simple answer becasue I knew that lion tamarins lived in South America and that they looked like small lions and could be black. However, trying to get to grips with the difference in historical ranges has been very complicated. For instance, the author mentions marmosets, but no species of marmoset is currently native to Surinam/Dutch Guyana or anywhere close to it. In some ways this is helpful - it seems to indicate that very wide species displacement has occurred followng colonization and industrialisation, and that therefore other species might also have once been native to the area (like some of the more likely suspects for the black lion ID). On the other hand, it renders so much of it guesswork that I'm beginning to think that it might not be possible to get a definitive answer. I also have a horrible feeling that if I think about this for too long, I will next be researching the history of industrialization and loss of wet and dry tropical forest habitat in Surinam from 1660 to the mid-1800's in an attempt to figure out if and when it might have been home to other species.
I think this might require some kind of intervention
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Monkeyworld
It's not all make believe.
Shang, you never fail to impress me with the lengths you go to for research, in the name of writing. I'd never even think to consider researching like you do. Sorry I'm not much help, but glad to have raised a smile.
pop_54 said:I've spanked a few
Hahahahaaaaaa!!!
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No! I won't STAND for that!AppleBiter said:Having read your entire question, I must now erect a statue to you.
There'll be no fucking monkey erections around here!
Quick! bring me a chair.
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BlackShanglan said:
You're very welcome.
I shall send a PM with several sources that I found.
The lack of specificity in identification that you mention is the core issue here. I'm trying to identify a creature that the author calls a "cusharee" (also spelled "cousharie") and which he describes as being smaller than a marmoset, black, and shaped "precisely" like a lion. Back when I was foolish enough to embark on this project, I thought that I had a simple answer becasue I knew that lion tamarins lived in South America and that they looked like small lions and could be black. However, trying to get to grips with the difference in historical ranges has been very complicated. For instance, the author mentions marmosets, but no species of marmoset is currently native to Surinam/Dutch Guyana or anywhere close to it. In some ways this is helpful - it seems to indicate that very wide species displacement has occurred followng colonization and industrialisation, and that therefore other species might also have once been native to the area (like some of the more likely suspects for the black lion ID). On the other hand, it renders so much of it guesswork that I'm beginning to think that it might not be possible to get a definitive answer. I also have a horrible feeling that if I think about this for too long, I will next be researching the history of industrialization and loss of wet and dry tropical forest habitat in Surinam from 1660 to the mid-1800's in an attempt to figure out if and when it might have been home to other species.
I think this might require some kind of intervention
Shanglan
Yes, I do understand that idea, it's one of the reasons I often prefer to write literature that is decidely less "real" in that respect. I adore the historical aspect, but I usually got lost in researching all the minutia that I so enjoy that I have no time for writing. Unfortunately, I'm not sure where to go with this particular issue either, it's quite complicated and the information isn't readily available -- certainly not with any specificity.
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Virtual_Burlesque said:
I gotta agree with you, Burle.....fucking monkey erections anyway. Besides, they're dirty and they don't know where I've been....er....I don't know where they've been. Yeah, that's what I meant.
Fucking Monkeys.
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*snicker*Virtual_Burlesque said:
god, youre a loon. i prespire to be you when i grow up.
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Shang, you never fail to impress me with the lengths you go to for research, in the name of writing. I'd never even think to consider researching like you do. Sorry I'm not much help, but glad to have raised a smile.
Well, to be fair, this is more on the "work" end of things than the creative writing end. Still, it has become extremely interesting, and I can now do a passable imitation of a specialist in Callithricidae as a party trick. Plus there's the fact that lion tamarins are just damned cute. Brazil has evidently (very wisely) made the golden lion tamarin the flagship species of their conservation efforts; petty much no one is willing to admit to wanting the adorable golden chirping playing social silky little monkeys to all die. They're a bit easier to rally around than the fruit crow.
rhinoguy said:too lazy to read the whole thread.
The title was enough to inspire a drawing based on the Wicked Witch of the West's famous Flying-Fucking Monkeys...who do her bidding.
BTW that's a FLYING-fucking monkey..so anything to do with him/them is not Beastiallity it's FANTASY/Sci-fi
Damnit, don't MAKE me go hunt up a genus and species for that bugger. Enough is enough.
(But it definitely looks like an Old World monkey to me, what with the pronounced septal ridge and ... stop me!)
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Someday, rhinoguy, a misguided little girl is going to park her house right on your head!rhinoguy said:too lazy to read the whole thread. . . . enough to inspire a drawing based on the Wicked Witch of the West's famous Flying-Fucking Monkeys...
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Okay, this is completely gratuitous, but I happened across a link today that, well, is all about fucking monkeys...
The squirrel-monkey press conference
The squirrel-monkey press conference
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I have examined the transcript of that press conference, and I believe The Rude Pundit has grossly distorted the event.
There is no way that there was a Squirrel Monkey involved. Without doubt, the victim was a California Kangaroo Rat.
Having Uncurious George share the spotlight with a Squirrel Monkey would unnecessarily risk having the Whare President intellectually outclassed.
And besides, Rat Fucking is an old Republican tradition.
There is no way that there was a Squirrel Monkey involved. Without doubt, the victim was a California Kangaroo Rat.
Having Uncurious George share the spotlight with a Squirrel Monkey would unnecessarily risk having the Whare President intellectually outclassed.
And besides, Rat Fucking is an old Republican tradition.
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Virtual_Burlesque said:
No, no....those are fucking rats when in referance to Republicans. That reminds me, I should call my brother....
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You are missing my point about The Tradion of Republican Rat-Fucking.The_Darkness said:
Karl Rove began his career as an agent of Donald Segretti’s "ratfuckers" as he called his boys – "Nixon's dirty tricksters – operating through a phoney front group to discredit and denounce anybody visibly opposing the Nixon Administration at the height of the Watergate scandal.
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