monkey riding a unicycle?

thats gotta be real. no way thats a midget in a monkey costume.

supper impressive! i wonder what motivated the monkey to learn to ride,
let alone ride backwards?

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reminds me of that joke...

"how do you teach a bear to ride a bicycle/unicycle?"

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I have a video somewhere of a chimpanzee riding forward. It was
mentioned a couple of years ago on this forum, I don't remember the
link. Riding backwards is new to me.

I'm worried whether the chimpanzee had fun during practicing though.

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that has got to be one of the coolest monkeys on earth! it can ride
backwards, how cool!

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next it can learn to wheel walk 😄

Quoted message said:

I'm worried whether the chimpanzee had fun during practicing though.

I think for the moneky to be able to ride, it would have to have some
enjoyment for what it was doing otherwise it would get too frustrated
and give up.

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it would be so cool if that monkey became one of the best riders in the
world!

it would also be extremely wierd and screw with a lot of sciencetists
minds!

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It's not a monkey by the way it's an ape.

It's real look at the feet.

But why would it blow scientists' minds? Scientists have always
beleived apes to be intelligent.

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yes, but that smart! thats pretty amasing

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Thanks for posting this, I've heard of a guy who apparently taught
orangutangs to ride unicycles in the '60s or there abouts, have never
ever seen footage before this though.

Can chimps teach other chimps how to ride?

How awesome could a primate get at trials?!

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"nickvb123" wrote in message ...

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http://tinyurl.com/kkzfq

Pah! That's nothing. I've been riding for years. I can go backwards,
play hockey, do muni, SIF, and a whole bunch of other things that monkey
didn't do in the video.

Semach.the.monkey

Klaas Bil said:

I have a video somewhere of a chimpanzee riding forward. It was
mentioned a couple of years ago on this forum, I don't remember the
link. Riding backwards is new to me.

I'm worried whether the chimpanzee had fun during practicing though.

I bet he did; chimpanzees are curious creatures, and enjoy solving
problems and puzzles. They probably get some of the same "wow, I'm
riding!" feeling that humans do when we first manage to ride.

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tholub said:

I bet he did; chimpanzees are curious creatures, and enjoy solving
problems and puzzles. They probably get some of the same "wow, I'm
riding!" feeling that humans do when we first manage to ride.

It just depends on how much beating was involved in the learning
process. At the man standing there who is probably the trainer doesn't
have a whip or anything. There is a clip somewhere esle of monkey (yes,
monkeys not chimps) riding little bicycles around a ring, but right in
the middle is a trainer with a whip. Ewwwww!

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I saw a chimpanzee ride a unicycle (giraffe) at the Detroit Zoo in the
1970s. It's apparently been done in many times/places based on the
apparent age of that old film. Also the son of unicycling-great Mel
Hall was an orangutan trainer and taught one or more of them to ride,
probably in the 70s as well. There's a picture in an old issue of On
One Wheel.

ThisGuyIKnow said:

There is a clip somewhere esle of monkey (yes, monkeys not chimps)
riding little bicycles around a ring, but right in the middle is a
trainer with a whip. Ewwwww!

In most cases, in shows the whip is either there for looks, or for
sound. In many circus acts you'll see this. The sound of a cracking
whip carries really far, so it kind of lights things up. But the
animals don't respond to the cracks, those are for "show." Often in
horse acts there is a second device the trainer uses, which basically
taps on the animals to direct them, or is used in front of them as a
lead.

I can't picture using a whip to "train" anyone into a skill like
unicycling, I just don't think it would be effective. Though we did see
a dog "trainer" beat on some dogs at a French castle we were touring
last week. They had a kennel of hunting dogs, which appeared to be
threatening one of the older dogs in there. Their "handler," let's call
him, first yelled at them and then they were quiet for a few minutes,
but then they started threatening the one dog again. He went in there,
singled out one of the leaders and gave him a bunch of whacks on the
back with a big wooden handle he was carrying. An Italian guy with a
video camera went "Hey-hey-HEY!" Then there was this little
conversation where the (French) dog handler apparently tried to tell
the guy he couldn't video, and the Italian guy said something probably
to the effect of "I'm bigger than you and I don't need a piece of
wood." Shocking.

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Not wishing to dis the monkey's mad skillz, but I'm thinking maybe the
film has been reversed and the monkey is just unicycling forwards
normally.

*edit* Do young people still say 'dis'?

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I just got shown up by a monkey...

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walruses are awesome... they just chill with their tusks and stuff...

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looks like he unicycles in spite of christ

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Into the blue said:

Not wishing to dis the monkey's mad skillz, but I'm thinking maybe the
film has been reversed and the monkey is just unicycling forwards
normally.

*edit* Do young people still say 'dis'?

he keeps making shoulder checks, i think he's going backwards

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That monkey is seriously a better rider than me. That is sad.

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Ha Quebec...Is that place still there?

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