And so it's not hard to imagine a chimpanzee being bitten while it's attacking another monkey and picking up virus that way.

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If strangers' off-key wailings is what you're in the mood for, you can hit up Brass Monkey (3440 Wilshire Blvd.), a more American karaoke dive bar that's good for sloppy fun.

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"An American Flying Fortress on its way to Britain from the southern states of America crossed the Atlantic from south America and on their way they picked up a monkey as a mascot, " he said.

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But even he probably could not have imagined the system would end up with a monkey being elected in Peter Mandelson's patch.

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David Miliband: No, they elected a candidate whose previous job was dressing up as a monkey at the Hartlepool football matches ...

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My daughter always makes room for a child who wants to climb up to the same perch on the monkey bars.

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Which makes no sense at all as a monkey is, in archaic naval parlance, a brass triangle which iron cannon balls are piled up inside of.

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