Woo-hoo, Friday!

#cheatday #humor #humour #primate

I could toot about Britannica suing OpenAI, but who cares (see Reuters news).. Let's turn back the clock a bit, imagine it's 2017 and GPTs are just a science project for-research..

Of course we can no longer read this article in 2026, paywall...

"Monkey see, monkey say, monkey do"

Baboons use vowel sounds remarkably similar to those found in human speech
https://www.wired.com/story/baboon-speech-vowel-sounds-evolution-human-speech/
#primate #science #animalia #business #copyrights #OpenAI

Juvenile Macaque, Borneo. #animals #primate #nature

Colonel Kiki training his crack legion of search and destroy otters.

#primate #orangutan #otter #humor #humour

You’ve likely never heard of the curious Red #Colobus, #WestAfrica’s rarest #primate 🐒🐵🙉 Researchers now know that protecting them and the #rainforest will protect all other rare #species. Fight for their survival! #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2025/07/27/protecting-the-rare-precious-red-colobus-will-safeguard-africas-forests/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieFeatures #Primate #JohannesRoberts This New to Digital Horror Movie Sets the Bar High for Most Terrifying Kill of 2026 http://dlvr.it/TRKrtQ

Two primate centers - Tulane and Washington - drop ‘primate’ from their name

« Two of the seven US National #Primate Research Centers have changed their name to “National Biomedical Research Center.”

The new names better reflect the variety of research projects underway at the centers.

Their projects employ other animals, computational and human-tissue methods in addition to nonhuman #primates. »

https://www.thetransmitter.org/community/two-primate-centers-drop-primate-from-their-name/

Two primate centers drop ‘primate’ from their name

The Washington and Tulane National Biomedical Research Centers—formerly called National Primate Research Centers—say they made the change to better reflect the breadth of research performed at the centers.

The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives