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Want to find out how smart an ape gets when u give him a Dell?
Orangtauns go ape over their Dell and Mac's
Co. Offers Apes for Computer Programming
Tue Aug 5,12:42 PM ET Add AP - Feature Stories to My Yahoo!
DES MOINES, Iowa - A Web site that spoofs the computer programming industry by offering chimpanzees and baboons to work for as little as 50 cents an hour has taken its monkey business too far, according to the Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary.
The Web site touts a fictitious Des Moines-based company called Primate Programming Inc., which it says was based on work done at the primate center showing apes can learn language and perform complex cognitive tasks.
Officials at the research center were not amused and asked the Web site's developer, Dan Mezick, to remove all references to the primate sanctuary from his site.
The Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary is being built on a 137-acre site near the Des Moines River. Sanctuary founder Ted Townsend has said it will be a world-class research center where scientists can study ape culture, including the way apes learn and communicate.
"We're putting together a team of world-renowned scientists who have devoted their lives to primate learning," said Al Setka, primate center spokesman.
"Our mission is sanctuary, research and education. We take that very seriously, and we don't want there to be any confusion," he said.
Mezick, president of New Technology Solutions, a North Haven, Conn., company that trains computer programmers, said he never intended to harm the center and planned to remove the references.
The site has been a hit with some people.
"It's hilarious," says Jason Cross, director of consumer Internet services for Lighthouse Communications in Des Moines.
The Web site addresses human-ape sensitivity training, intellectual property rights for primates and offers volume discounts.
It suggests companies provide "a leafy, comfortable workspace" and warns that "hominids (great apes) will not share source code and become very territorial when programming."
PPI (news - web sites) baboons can get rowdy after software testing, the Web site suggests, while its chimps are experts at debugging techniques and bill at a higher rate.
"Our orangs are great at report writing," the Web site boasts. "All have great written English skills."
Orangtauns go ape over their Dell and Mac's
Co. Offers Apes for Computer Programming
Tue Aug 5,12:42 PM ET Add AP - Feature Stories to My Yahoo!
DES MOINES, Iowa - A Web site that spoofs the computer programming industry by offering chimpanzees and baboons to work for as little as 50 cents an hour has taken its monkey business too far, according to the Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary.
The Web site touts a fictitious Des Moines-based company called Primate Programming Inc., which it says was based on work done at the primate center showing apes can learn language and perform complex cognitive tasks.
Officials at the research center were not amused and asked the Web site's developer, Dan Mezick, to remove all references to the primate sanctuary from his site.
The Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary is being built on a 137-acre site near the Des Moines River. Sanctuary founder Ted Townsend has said it will be a world-class research center where scientists can study ape culture, including the way apes learn and communicate.
"We're putting together a team of world-renowned scientists who have devoted their lives to primate learning," said Al Setka, primate center spokesman.
"Our mission is sanctuary, research and education. We take that very seriously, and we don't want there to be any confusion," he said.
Mezick, president of New Technology Solutions, a North Haven, Conn., company that trains computer programmers, said he never intended to harm the center and planned to remove the references.
The site has been a hit with some people.
"It's hilarious," says Jason Cross, director of consumer Internet services for Lighthouse Communications in Des Moines.
The Web site addresses human-ape sensitivity training, intellectual property rights for primates and offers volume discounts.
It suggests companies provide "a leafy, comfortable workspace" and warns that "hominids (great apes) will not share source code and become very territorial when programming."
PPI (news - web sites) baboons can get rowdy after software testing, the Web site suggests, while its chimps are experts at debugging techniques and bill at a higher rate.
"Our orangs are great at report writing," the Web site boasts. "All have great written English skills."
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I don't know whether to believe this or is it a joke? :P I do know and believe that the ape family are closely related to the homo sapiens race...but intellectually, I don't know because the apes are highly primitive and don't communicate much with words and so forth.