Once a man with a pet monkey suspected that my story was a ploy that I was an animal rights activist out to liberate his monkey.
Nick Laird who is married to the Orange Prize for Fiction winner Zadie Smith makes the shortlist for his novel Utterly Monkey, although he had also entered a short book of poetry, To A Fault.
The young bum laughed insanely and hopped backward toward the door, dangling his arms like a monkey.
The above photo is from some of his research where a monkey controls a robotic arm and hand.
He smoothly described his company, Fitness Monkey, a mobile exercise application to help drug and alcohol addicts avoid relapsing.
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"He needs to get that monkey of his back, " Becker said of Murray.
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He had carried around the same monkey on his back, and he ultimately sent him packing, winning eight majors in all.
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He will likely present Mr. Obama with the choice of doing serious entitlement reform that will get the debt-ceiling monkey off his back for a notable period of his presidency, or of monthly debt-ceiling fights.
We all famously remember Steve Young on the sidelines having teammates pull the fictitious Joe Montana monkey off his back during Super Bowl XXIX in Miami as his San Francisco 49ers were routing the San Diego Chargers.
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It beat the art film Exit Through the Gift Shop putting to rest any worries the Academy might have had about street artist Banksy (who directed the film) trying to accept his award in a monkey mask.
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German researchers experimenting on monkey foetuses confirmed his research, but they did not know why the drug caused these results.
And his meaning is plain: any monkey-business to stop him winning, and he might walk out.
The little affenpinscher with a monkey face added to his world of success Tuesday night, winning best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club.
And if Jobs has his way, games like "Super Monkey Ball" will mean that people stuck in corporate meetings may be twitchier than ever in the near future.
Wilson, best known for his role as the aggressively clueless Dwight Schrute on TV's "The Office, " began his talk with random slides ("Here's a baby monkey riding a boar"), gags about the early days of the Internet and jokes about his postings on Twitter, where he has almost 3 million followers.
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Among the seven elected were a policeman suspended by his local force and a man in a monkey-suit.
His pseudonym Araucaria is the Latin name for monkey puzzle tree.
The victories of independent candidates in the mayoral contests in Hartlepool and Middlesborough also caught the eyes of the headline writers, not least because the winner in Hartlepool campaigned as his town's football mascot, a monkey.
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Dr. Mitalipov said his lab had tried transplanting entire blastocysts into a monkey's womb, but those experiments hadn't yielded a single successful pregnancy.
Yet his careful experiments designed to reveal how our monkey brains have evolved to make decisions go a long way toward explaining the effectiveness of political propaganda designed to exploit our inherent mental laziness.
The tweet provoked an angry response from many who saw racist overtones in his comparison of the dark-skinned, bearded Mr Ahmadinejad to a monkey.
As observed in a popular video that de Waal showed in his TED talk, after receiving the first piece of cucumber, the capuchin monkey gives the experimenter a rock as expected.
In his memoirs he describes a life not far removed from the fantasies of his novels, peopled by friends called Fluff, Bumble, Hilly, Fram, Monkey, Liddie, Pansy and a dentist called Sussman, who is for ever fixing Mr Powell's teeth.
But the grooming of his chosen successor, third son Kim Jong Un, remains incomplete, and this throws something of a monkey wrench in succession plans.
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His Europhilia probably has limited appeal in a place whose residents, according to local legend, once hanged a shipwrecked monkey as a Napoleonic spy.
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