Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 14, 2021

It’s called compensation…

Sounds crazy, but it’s true. The howler monkeys that makes the loudest, deepest howls are the ones with the largest hyoid bone (up near the neck), but, for whatever reason, those are the monkeys with the smallest testes. I saw a segment on tv (Animal Planet, possibly), but don’t remember why it is so.

I saw a howler monkey yesterday driving a Corvette. Now I understand why.

Hear this howler monkey roar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYar0dkZ6v8

How Embarrassing.

So what’s more impressive? Bigger balls or bigger bawls?

Behold the tanuki, or at least the folkloric version of it (extremely loosely based on a real animal):

https://jonellepatrick.me/2020/10/29/when-nothing-but-unnecessarily-large-tanuki-testicles-will-do/

I read that article. The loud ones would lord it over a harem. The better endowed didn’t need to.

The bigger the truck…

…well. that explains Davy Jones…

…I have often wondered when people say that because of the boldness of someone that the saying goes, “That guy has got some big balls,” whether that actually c correlated…

…does cockiness relate to the size of one’s testies?…

…I’ve always doubted that it did…

…but…um…

…now, I don’t know…

bigger they are, harder they fall ;+)

that explains a lot in todays political climate

Small-testicled Howlers would carry AR-15s if they could pass the background checks.

I think I heard that males who have to compete for mates in a group have larger testes. Dominant silver back gorillas, for instance, have the smallest balls relative to their weight of any primate. Don’t know about howler monkeys, though.

Some family jewels are a hoot and an howler…depends on who’s doing the looting.

So … the smaller the Howler, the bigger the Hoot …?

Crazy Trump and liar Jim Jordan are the loudest screaming republicans.

They are carriers. Next stop is sorting mail for postal carrier’s..

Fido, bring the mail, paper, pipe, and slippers.

We, gentlemen-of-a-certain-age, have been … Tickled under the testicles by the tempestuous touch of time!

1st Researcher: “Let’s go do some science!”

2nd Researcher: “Nah, let’s go measure some monkey testicles.”

The empty wagon makes the most noise.

Needless to say this applies to politicians. A recent former president comes to mind as well as the word “cashew.”

The sport of choice for the urban poor is BASKETBALL.

The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is BOWLING.

The sport of choice for front-line workers is FOOTBALL.

The sport of choice for supervisors is BASEBALL.

The sport of choice for middle management is TENNIS. And….

The sport of choice for corporate executives and officers is GOLF.

THE AMAZING CONCLUSION: The higher you go in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. There must be a ton of people in Washington playing marbles!

Ed: I think they lost their marbles long ago.

Logic says: correlation does not imply causation necessarily.

Loud howlers have small balls? Show me the science….

In the central panel, the capitalized “TESTICLES.” in a word balloon by itself, has nearly an even chance of being pronounced “TEST-i-cleez” (like Pericles, Socrates, etc.) vs. “TES-tickles” in my internal voice as I read it.

Here’s some related nonsense:  https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Testicl%C4%93s

@painedsmile. That is an amazing sound clip of a howler monkey you found. Now I understand what is meant by roaring. And that monkey must have the smallest testicles in the jungle. Hear him roar! Wow. Wow. Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYar0dkZ6v8