Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/28/troop-of-monkeys-think-an-anim.html
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Let me guess, the spy monkey’s name was Rigor Morty.
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The monkeys definitely chose appropriately sad music to express their emotional state.
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Technology: Making animals sad since…always.
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I was going to say, the music was a bit much. The event was interesting enough without attempts to tug additionally on heart strings through orchestral cues.
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I’m . a . sad . monkey.
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I would really loved to have seen the faces of the film crew. Watching as they freak out about their spy monkey being discovered, manhandled and rendered useless.
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To suceed in the marketplace, nature documentaries need narrative and emotional engagement.
(in my opinion, the musical track detracts from his point)
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Troop of humans think corporate surveillance state is a manifestation of a dead society and gather around BB to mourn it.
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Agreed, except for the word “think” could be replaced with “know”.
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But then they’re told that it’s a “foreign” monkey from another troop, and they celebrate and bow down before their orange-furred alpha male.
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Just imagine how sad they’re about to be, when their entire habitat is burned to the ground and destroyed. They’ll forget all about that robot baby.
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“In this BBC video, a troop of Langur monkeys come across an animatronic spy monkey with a camera in its eye, and assume it’s a dead baby. They gather around it and appear to mourn it.”
At which time the robot turned its head to get a better camera angle. The monkeys now assumed it was a zombie monkey and stabbed it in the head with a pointed stick.
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They are more like use than we care to admit. We should admit this and change our behavior towards these fellow primates.
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Good monkeys!
Way to stave off the apocalypse
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Terminator, the early years.
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From one monkey to another, welcome to the Boingz.
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They gather around it and appear to mourn it.
They’re mourning the fact that privacy invading tech has entered their lives.
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I mean, haven’t we all sniffed the micro-USB port of our Amazon Echo/Google Home?
(Just kidding - Happy Mutants are too smart to invite spy hardware into our homes. Right?)
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Proudly – I’ve managed to avoid all sites/devices/IOS stuff.
IOW: If I ditched my laptop, cell, and TV, I’d be a Luddite with a capital, in bold, L (as you can see). 
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