Comments on: Sending a Rotten Message up the Food Chain http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2006/11/26/sending-a-rotten-message-up-the-food-chain/ Science News ... Monkey Spin Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:13:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Christian http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2006/11/26/sending-a-rotten-message-up-the-food-chain/#comment-119 Christian Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:47:45 +0000 http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2006/11/26/sending-a-rotten-message-up-the-food-chain/#comment-119 Yuck, that's like licking a cookie so nobody eats it. ** pun alert ** For bacteria, that's so uncultured. <em>groans</em> Yuck, that’s like licking a cookie so nobody eats it.

** pun alert **
For bacteria, that’s so uncultured.

groans

]]> By: Jim http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2006/11/26/sending-a-rotten-message-up-the-food-chain/#comment-120 Jim Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:10:43 +0000 http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2006/11/26/sending-a-rotten-message-up-the-food-chain/#comment-120 From Wikipedia: "The bacteria used to ferment Limburger cheese ... is Brevibacterium linens; this same bacteria is found on human skin and is partially responsible for human body odor. A likely reason for this is that the monks of Limburg who created the cheese would originally mix the milk and curds into cheese by stomping it with their feet." Yuck. Oh well. For me, the smellier and runnier, the better. I guess acquired taste can supersede natural repulsion. From Wikipedia:
“The bacteria used to ferment Limburger cheese … is Brevibacterium linens; this same bacteria is found on human skin and is partially responsible for human body odor. A likely reason for this is that the monks of Limburg who created the cheese would originally mix the milk and curds into cheese by stomping it with their feet.”

Yuck. Oh well.

For me, the smellier and runnier, the better. I guess acquired taste can supersede natural repulsion.

]]> By: Christian http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2006/11/26/sending-a-rotten-message-up-the-food-chain/#comment-121 Christian Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:36:59 +0000 http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2006/11/26/sending-a-rotten-message-up-the-food-chain/#comment-121 Ugh. Ugh.

]]> By: sydney h. http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2006/11/26/sending-a-rotten-message-up-the-food-chain/#comment-1127 sydney h. Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:40:22 +0000 http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2006/11/26/sending-a-rotten-message-up-the-food-chain/#comment-1127 it is a great site if you could just add a food chain with monkeys on it. thank you it is a great site if you could just add a food chain with monkeys on it.

thank you

]]> By: monkey http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2006/11/26/sending-a-rotten-message-up-the-food-chain/#comment-1128 monkey Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:23:32 +0000 http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2006/11/26/sending-a-rotten-message-up-the-food-chain/#comment-1128 Thanks, I guess... It's interesting you should ask, because I was just noticing the other day that I have been getting a small but significant handful of hits from search terms such as "monkey food chain", etc. Is this some kind of school project? I was curious so I googled it myself. I didn't find anything about a school project, but I did find some quick info on a monkey food chain. I imagine it depends on the sort of monkey, but here is what I have so far, just for kicks: Buds --> Rhesus Monkey --> Jackal Info from http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/hunting8.html (jackals eat rhesus monkeys, see text and accompanying diagram) and http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/211.shtml (rhesus monkeys feed on seeds, roots, buds, fruit, invertebrates, bark and cereals). It's far more complicated than that, of course. But I give you a very simple food chain, and demonstrate how one would go about researching a food web. I googled "monkey food chain" and got to the first site to see that jackals eat rhesus monkeys. Then I googled "rhesus monkey diet" and got to the second site. So to answer your question, you just find out what a monkey eats, and/or what eats the monkey. Then, look up the next thing. What does that eat and/or what is it eaten by? Then, just draw the arrows the right way (they go from what is being eaten to what is doing the eating), and you're done. So, does anyone care to share what sort of project we're working on here? Thanks, I guess… It’s interesting you should ask, because I was just noticing the other day that I have been getting a small but significant handful of hits from search terms such as “monkey food chain”, etc. Is this some kind of school project?

I was curious so I googled it myself. I didn’t find anything about a school project, but I did find some quick info on a monkey food chain. I imagine it depends on the sort of monkey, but here is what I have so far, just for kicks:

Buds –> Rhesus Monkey –> Jackal
Info from http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/hunting8.html (jackals eat rhesus monkeys, see text and accompanying diagram) and http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/211.shtml (rhesus monkeys feed on seeds, roots, buds, fruit, invertebrates, bark and cereals).

It’s far more complicated than that, of course. But I give you a very simple food chain, and demonstrate how one would go about researching a food web. I googled “monkey food chain” and got to the first site to see that jackals eat rhesus monkeys. Then I googled “rhesus monkey diet” and got to the second site. So to answer your question, you just find out what a monkey eats, and/or what eats the monkey. Then, look up the next thing. What does that eat and/or what is it eaten by? Then, just draw the arrows the right way (they go from what is being eaten to what is doing the eating), and you’re done.

So, does anyone care to share what sort of project we’re working on here?

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