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6 unusual facts about Monkey


Carlos Navarro Montoya

Nicknamed El Mono (Monkey) whilst in Argentina, Navarro Montoya was born in Medellín, Colombia, and he started playing professionally in the former country at only 18, with Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield.

Hit-Monkey

A video game based on the comic was announced as being developed by High Moon Studios and published by Activision for release in 2013.

He first appeared in Hit-Monkey #1, released in February 2010 (with a cover date of April 2010), created by Daniel Way and Dalibor Talajić.

Kenneth Lyen

Monkey (2009): Puppet musical of an episode from Monkey: Journey to the West.

Monkey-man of Delhi

Theories on the nature of the Monkey Man ranged from an Avatar of the Hindu god Hanuman, to an Indian version of Bigfoot.

Wang Wei

Wang Wei (actor), National Third Class actor, actor of Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, featured in Monkey: Journey to the West


American Maid

She has also been revealed to be an operative (at least part-time) for the US government and had the former alias of Jeanine Smith during a mission with the Tick and Arthur to rescue Yank, a monkey made temporarily smart by cosmic rays, and subsequently kidnapped by the evil ruler Pineapple Pokopo.

Azuero spider monkey

The Azuero subspecies is one of three types of spider monkeys in Panama; Ateles geoffroyi panamensis with a range spanning from Costa Rica to Darién excluding the Azuero, Ateles geoffroyi fusciceps, with a range spanning Panamá and Colón provinces, and Ateles geoffroyi azuerensis, the Azuero spider monkey, whose range encompasses only the Azuero Peninsula.

Bert Dauncey

Dauncey played at threequarters with two important Welsh international rugby players, Tom Pearson and Arthur 'Monkey' Gould, with whom, historian G. M. Trevelyan believed had an instinct to know where each were on the rugby pitch.

C. rotundifolium

Combretum rotundifolium, the monkey brush, a plant species found in South America

Christian Keysers

He then started his research career at the University of St Andrews by investigating cells in the Temporal cortex with David Perrett, and described cells that respond when the monkey views particular faces in a way that correlates with conscious perception.

Cortical remapping

To better understand this phenomenon in the brain, they used micro-electrodes to micromap the monkey’s cortical map of its hand.

Cultural appropriation

This is exemplified in the novel Crick Crack, Monkey by Merle Hodge when those who are colonized appropriate the culture of the colonizers.

Drunken Monkey

In the story, the Monkey King stole all the peaches of the "spiritual peach tree" of the Heavenly King Mother and drank all the wine reserved for fairies and immortals who were invited to the birthday party of the Heavenly King.

Folklore of Amazonas

An irrefutable evidence is the marsh of Mono Muerto (Dead Monkey's marsh), in the district of Huambo (Rodríguez de Mendoza).

General Johnson

Invictus Records labelmates Honey Cone recorded the Johnson penned tracks "Want Ads", "Stick Up," and "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show."

Hamlyn's monkey

The name "Hamlyn's monkey" and the scientific epithet "hamlyni" come from the animal dealer who first brought this species to the London Zoo.

He Said He Loved Me

The title track is co-written by Alex Turner of the band Arctic Monkeys: frontman Jon McClure are good friends, to the point of sharing a flat in Sheffield, and have written other songs, such as "Old Yellow Bricks", from the Arctic Monkey's second album Favourite Worst Nightmare and also "The Machine", which appears on Reverend and the Makers' album The State of Things.

History of mints

Minting by means of a falling weight (monkey press) intervened between the hand hammers and the screw press in many places.

Infinite monkey theorem

In his 1931 book The Mysterious Universe, Eddington's rival James Jeans attributed the monkey parable to a "Huxley", presumably meaning Thomas Henry Huxley.

Jean-François Laguionie

Only in 1999 did his second feature film, Le Château des singes (A Monkey's Tale) premier, to win the Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the 5th Kecskemét Animation Film Festival.

Kavalappara Narayanan Nair

His white-beard (vella thaadi) roles in the form of the monkey-god Hanuman gained him fame, and even inspired Malayalam poet Edasseri Govindan Nair to pen a poem titled "Lavanasuravadhathile Hanuman".

LeChuck

All three of his normal "undead" appearances are seen in Escape from Monkey Island, as he has gained the ability to swap between these forms, and near the end of the game, he possesses a large statue of himself that Guybrush must defeat in Monkey Kombat.

Lincon Muteta

A native of the Highfield area of Harare, Muteta is the youngest of four in a family which originates from Mutoko; his totem is "Soko Murehwa", or the monkey.

Luodong, Yilan

Its name derives from the Kavalan word rutung, meaning "monkey", referring to a large population of monkeys there half century ago.

Mickey the Monkey

The Clash Drummer Topper Headon, real name Nicholas Bowen Headon, earned his nickname from the band's guitarist Mick Jones due to his resemblance to Mickey the Monkey.

Monkey puzzle

Araucaria araucana, the monkey puzzle tree, a species of conifer

Music for the Divine

Promotional videos were shot for the songs This House, The Divine and Monkey Man (which featured Jimmy Barnes).

P. Shane Mitchell

His unpublished, but frequently produced works include stage adaptations of horror classics such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Monkey's Paw, The Witch of the Graythorn, as well as many of the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Patricia Medina

Medina also made television appearances on Perry Mason ("The Case of the Lucky Loser", 27 September 1958); Bonanza ("The Spanish Grant", 6 February 1960), Thriller ("The Premature Burial", 1961) and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ("See the Monkey Dance", 9 November 1964).

Pirates 4-D

Davie (Adam Wylie), a cabin boy who was betrayed by the nasty Captain Lucky (Leslie Nielsen) on Pirate Island, escapes the captain's trap in order to set up booby traps with the help of a monkey named Chester to catch Lucky and his crew when he returns to the island to rediscover a treasure he buried there.

Poolie Pride

The single contained three tracks: "Two Little Boys", "Never Say Die" and "Hartlepool and the Monkey".

Porn 'n Chicken

Grad students had founded PnC, this story says, both as an organizing society for a variety of monkey-wrenching activities intended to hurt the Yale Corporation, and as a venue to watch pornographic movies.

Radio Bemba Sound System

Many of the songs found on Radio Bemba Sound System, such as "Machine Gun", "Peligro","Mala Vida","King Kong Five" and "The Monkey", are songs originally recorded by Manu Chao's previous band, Mano Negra.

Rick Farmiloe

He has been part of some of Disney's most profitable animated features, such as The Little Mermaid, in which he animated the character of Scuttle the seagull, and on Aladdin, in which he animated the monkey Abu.

Singerie

In France the most famous such rococo decor are Christophe Huet's Grande Singerie and Petite Singerie decors at the Château de Chantilly; in England the French painter Andieu de Clermont is also known for his singeries: the most famous decorates the ceiling of the Monkey Room at Monkey Island Hotel, located on Monkey Island in Bray-on-Thames, England.

Stephen Nash's titi

Stephen Nash's titi (Callicebus stephennashi), also known as just Nash's titi or Stephen Nash's monkey, is a species of titi, a type of New World monkey, endemic to the eastern bank of the Purus River in Brazil.

Stone Monkey

Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, a character in the Chinese novel Journey to the West.

Subhuti

Subhūti appears as a character in the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West, as the teacher of the Monkey King Sun Wukong.

Taung Child

Dean Falk, a specialist in neuroanatomy, declared that the Taung skull belonged to a young monkey.

The Adventures of Blinky Bill

The animals he rescued were Ling Ling the Panda, Slippery the Seal, Yoyo the Monkey, Princess Penelope the Poodle, Leo the Lion and Tico Toucan (who originally works for the Circus Bros.) They went to Antarctica, the African Plains, China, the Amazon Rainforest, India and Paris.

The Dandy Warhols Are Sound

Prior to the release of Welcome to the Monkey House, the band had been pressing for a version mixed by Elevado, whose credits include D'Angelo's Brown Sugar, The Roots' The Roots Come Alive, Common's Like Water for Chocolate and Alicia Keys' Songs in A Minor, among others.

The Enormous Crocodile

A monkey bearing resemblance to Quentin Blake's illustration of the same character also appears in The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.

The Goss Girls

First Monkey brought you news of Daily Star music columnist Joe Mott's out of control blog, where he dissed his colleagues Amy Watts and Charli Morgan, who write the redtop's Goss column.

The Green Monkey

On September 15, 2007, The Green Monkey made his racing debut in a six-furlong maiden race at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.

University of California Riverside 1985 laboratory raid

Veterinarian ophthalmologist Ned Buyukmihci of the University of California, Davis, and founder of Veterinarians for Animal Rights, said after he examined Britches that the sutures used were too large, the monkey's eye pads were dirty, and that, in his view, there was no justification for what he called a sloppy, painful experiment.

Valdivian Coast Range

Some of the rare species that inhabit the Valdivian Coastal Range include the Pudu (the smallest deer in the world), the Degu, the Marine Otter, and the Monito del Monte, or mountain monkey (actually a marsupial).

Vicious Cycle Software

Thus far, Monkey Bar Games has released video games incorporating licensed characters from Ben 10, Dora the Explorer, and Curious George.

Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey

Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey (b. circa 1987) is a white-headed capuchin monkey known for riding a Border Collie at rodeos across the United States.

Winged monkeys

At this remark, the Asgardian hero Thor is confused, not knowing what a monkey is (and not having read or seen The Wizard of Oz) whilst Captain America excitedly announces that he understood the reference, having come from a source from before when he was frozen during World War II.

WNKS

In 1990, after stunting with repeated airplay of "Shock The Monkey" by Peter Gabriel, the station returned to CHR as WZZG a.k.a. "Gorilla Radio, The New Z95.1 FM".

Woodill Wildfire

The stars of the show, Gas Monkey Garage in Dallas, Texas, did light restoration and modification to the vehicle for resale.


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