From the National Geographic, November issue.
The caption to this shot (at least on the website) is:
Bachelor geladas huddle chest to chest to conserve heat in the windy December dawn. The monkey at right barks a warning as a family male—one with his own group of females and their offspring—approaches to show who's boss. Often the single guys ask for trouble by eyeing nearby females, "kind of like rough street kids," says biologist and gelada expert Chadden Hunter. "They're old enough to know what they want but not big enough to take it."
Now that sounds like 9622.net!
There's also a longish, but good, flash presentation about the geladas and their female-dominated society here. Yep, the guys hang out together and think they're too cool for drool, but it's really the wimmen that rule the roost. Hmm, now it really does sound like 9622.net.
I think Bachelor Geladas would be a terrific name for a rock band, but only if the front man was named Chadden Hunter.
Posted by: Crash on October 18, 2002 12:38 AMActually, there's only three occupations that show up in the personality profiles for someone named "Chadden Hunter", oddly enough: gelada expert, rock band front man, and CNN anchorman. This poor bastard obviously couldn't sing or speak clearly enough.
Posted by: yhbc on October 18, 2002 12:46 AMBachelor! When I dated the one on the right, she didn't tell me she was a bachelor. Sheesh!
Posted by: muckybob on October 18, 2002 03:48 AMPshaw. Nothing like humans. Nope, not at all.
Gotta run, need to get flowers for my fiancee.
Posted by: anathema on October 18, 2002 07:37 AMFor in gelada society there is one underlying law that governs all behaviors:Girls Rule.
I'm gonna rule, too, right after I make hubby this cuppa tea.
Heh. Geladas means "frozen" in the feminine; i.e. supercool, which they are.
Beautiful - I'd been missing real monkeys for quite a while now.
Thanks, Commish!
Posted by: Miguel on October 18, 2002 10:41 AMThat one in the middle got a look in his eye like he's thinking about snapping the loudmouth on the right with a wet towel.
"You see, this is a cheapass JCPenney bath towel, the most powerful snappin' towel in the world..." he said eastwoodily. "It'll take your ass-hair clean off. So what you gotta ask yourself is... "do I feel lucky?" Well? Do ya... Gelada? Do ya??"
snap!
Posted by: Unclefes on October 18, 2002 11:31 AMOh, and I'll have two Gelada shots please? Lime, if you have them.
Posted by: Unclefes on October 18, 2002 11:34 AMUpon review, that whole "gelada shot" thing sounds very, very wrong. That's not how I meant it, you perverts.
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