Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for November 09, 2023

That’s a gorilla not a monkey.

Nail perhaps struck upon head!

I’m with the gorilla.

At the first zoo where I worked, a hummingbird hit a viewing panel inside the gorilla exhibit. A young male gently picked it up and brought it to the zookeeper.

It survived!

A moment to stop and reflect on our own blindness.

Sad commentary on what’s happening to the world’s tropical forests…

Superb!

“Beware of the beast Man, for he is the Devil’s spawn – alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport, or lust, or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home, and yours. Shun him. Send him back to his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.” — The Lawgiver, Scroll 29, Verse 6.

“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.” No one has been better at summing up the “pitifulness” of humans – that includes me – than Mark Twain.

Too true, and beautiful told.

Gorillas are great apes.

The semi-intelligent primates will never understand

Yeah, humans suck. We invented war crimes after all. Also war.

Also capitalism.

They may do some fierce slapping when defending their territory, but they are a quieter bunch than chimpanzees.

The actual gorilla just protected the kid and didn’t let the others get too close.