Spent Sunday with my fam and another fam at the North Carolina Zoological Park in Asheboro, NC. Winter really is the BEST time to visit the zoo. It was cold, but we had the place almost completely to ourselves. And the animals, for the most part, are so much more active when it’s not 95 degrees out and humid as a hothouse.
This sea lion knew more tricks than my kids do. And just look at that winter sun glistening off his smooth skin.
Speaking of my kids, the highlight of their day was playing with the adolescent and baby baboons. I want one. A baboon, that is. Despite their heart-shaped flaming heinies and rather obvious genitalia, they are adorable. And they actually played with my kids. The baboons would bang against the glass, chatter, run in circles, even stick out their tongues to keep the attention of my youngsters. Who then rewarded the boons by banging against the glass, chattering, running in circles and sticking out their tongues.
It was a show for the adults as well. Who needs porn when you can visit a baboon colony? I thought it might just be that time of month or something until I discovered this: “Scientist Zaborovsky wrote in one of his works devoted to baboons:’Baboons stand out among other apes for their sexual lustfulness. The phallus of a male baboon is almost always erected. If a male boon is locked alone in a cage, he will die from his unsatisfied desire to copulate. The smell of a female can drive a male baboon to insanity.’ A baboon with an erected penis was a divinity in ancient Egypt.”
The kids seemed oblivious to most of the sex play but were intrigued with the previously-mentioned heinies and the rather, ummmmm, blood-engorged genitalia. There was a lot of public nursing going on as well. This, in a county where you can’t buy beer at convenience stores! In the center of the Bible Belt! Oh my!
The conundrum of the day? Foreskins. Perhaps it was due to the constant erecty thingee, but the other Mom and I noticed that the boons seemed to be circumcised. Crazy, I know. But surely, like most other mammals, they have foreskins or sheaths? Perhaps not. Perhaps these were Jewish baboons. Anyone know?
as a monkey myself (per your earlier blogquiz), i can attest to all the aforementioned activity. rip out the front wall of my house, install study plexiglass, and you can charge people admission to watch me.
i don’t know the answer to your foreskin question. but isn’t there an actual bone in the baboon penis? i don’t know. but i have seen the band “Bone Pony” play in Hotlanta, so maybe that’s a hint.
eeuuww- Ash! EM- now I want to know. Find out and post the answer please. Don’t make me google this.
A really good zoo is wonderful in winter.
Well, maybe they have a foreskin and it’s not apparent because they are never flaccid. I dated a guy once who I thought was circumcised because of the flaccid/erect situation. But he wasn’t. There. Enough said.
My favorite scene was at Busch Gardens in Tampa. One male monkey was going down on the other male monkey while he reclined. They had like three male monkeys in this area with no females, and I guess that’s what they do to aleviate boredom! One mom dragged her daughter off rather violently when she insisted on knowing what the monkeys were doing…
Man, this invites so many “spank the monkey” comments, I don’t know where to start.
Actually, it’s too easy. Takes all of the fun out of it.
Ash, what do Ponies have to do with baboons?
Kira and SC, there was lots of spanking and servicing going on. I was waiting for my son to ask, “Aren’t they supposed to do that in private?” See how far we’ve evolved?
Vicki, I Googled already, but I’ll see what else I can find.
I don’t know about baboons, but for a “discussion” of human habits see the film Kinsey. Great movie.
I’m pretty sure this is the first time in my ENTIRE LIFE that the subject of Babboon foreskin, has ever come up.
most of me is on the floor laughing, and a small part of me is wondering… “Well, DO THEY? Oh great! Now it’s going to bother me until I find out! Like i didnt have enough on my mind already. Now I’m going to be thinking about baboon foreskin dangit!!!”
Ash, are you comparing yourself to a male baboon here?
I can’t wait to hear about the hits that are going to be on your site meter from this post.
EM, i think i’ve said enough.
i almost typed in “baboon circumcision” into google, but realized that i was at work and thought better of it.
actually, i’m thinking better of it right now…
You must have a great zoom lens.
Well, I can’t find any extensive information on baboon penises, boned or not, on-line. I have learned a great deal about the critters today, though.
Did you know that when male baboon buddies greet each other, they diddle each other’s genitals? Takes Brokeback Mountain to a whole new level.
They diddle each other’s genitalia! Ha ha!
This post has definitely aroused my interest in baboons - didn’t we stick a baboon heart into a man once? Didn’t the man live for like 6 months with it?
Brokeboon Mountain