Note the vacant simean stare that results from an immature brain. This poor specimen has only just become aware of his surroundings and has been damaged from an over-attentive mother.
And this young hamadryas baboon has had his hair licked off with some excessive tender loving care by his mother.
Reggie was born at Paignton Zoo, Devon, England three weeks ago, weighing 18oz (510g) with a normal covering of hair.
A zoo spokesman said: “Mostly they’re born hairy and stay hairy, but in this case the mother has been over-zealous.”
Phil Knowling added: “It will grow back and he will be fine, but he is a baboon curiosity at the moment.”
No information is available on whether the Washington chimp will recover but informed sources strongly doubt it.
That was damn funny! Thank you ever so much LondonBear 🙂
And the second one is so much better looking too.
Smarter, too.
If you look at the two men behind Bush, they look parental to me…. like they had to go over and over a simple instruction and then watching over to make sure their directions were carried out.
Look at Bush… it’s so hard to focus on one task.
Bush: Is this right??? The big flat end hits the little itty bitty end? Look! I’m doing it! I’m doing it.
The only man on earth who needs to be supervised while attempting to hammer a nail.
Hey, “carpentring” is hard work!
Dija notice he’s using a brand new smooth face? Probably gave him an 8 sinker so’s he’d retain his self-esteem. heh…
that all the rest are wearing REAL hardhats, Bush has something that looks like my kids get with a happy meal.
Seriously, she sounds like a wonderful mother. She’s adoring her baby.
The top chimp, though, had a cold and distant mother. And it shows.
builds single family homes for people who are working. That’s a very good thing for working families who have the cash for a downpayment and who can afford the monthly payments. They also must be physically fit in order to help with the construction.
From Habitat website:
But what about the needs of the really poor? The single family home is not the best land use as it takes up more services than affordable apartments or townhomes for those in need. Those people would include young couples starting out, young people on their first jobs, students, single people and single parents working on minimum wage jobs. Old people and persons with disabilities on fixed incomes also need low cost housing. They do not qualify for Habitat for Humanity.
As far as Habitat of Humanity helping people made homeless by Katrina or Rita, it is too little and it is too slow. Large projects, town houses, low rise apartment buildings with playgrounds are more in line with what is needed. And especially in urban areas for those who do not own cars. Remember the 10,000 in New Orleans left behind because they did not own cars?
So there’s Bush, cloning former President Carter, with his promotion of a housing plan that may help a dozen families out of the million people made homeless in the Southern Gulf States.
*The project is specifically Christian but does not discriminate. From the Habitat Victoria BC Canada website:
I’m passing your words along… incredible food for thought! Thank you!!!
Thank you Janet, I felt a little like being Chris Hitchens when he criticized Mother Theresa because of course Habitat for Humanity is a good thing in itself. It has however, many restrictions that make it of limited help during this period of massive homelessness.
That is why I come here. I get to see things in a different light.
I consider myself fairly “awake” but yet with all that photo opping I did not think of the fact that HEY, this isn’t a good solution.
I was spoon fed the idea that it was “good”.
Thank you thank you.
I sent and posted it on (with credit to: a dear soul known only as Sybil) to others who I think are super smart and they were also “OMG! That’s so right!”
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You know how Those Monkeys are.