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  2. Congo (chimpanzee) - Wikipedia

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    Congo was born in the wild in 1954. He learned to draw near the age of two, beginning when zoologist Desmond Morris offered Congo a pencil. [2] Morris said, "He took a pencil and I placed a piece of card in front of him. This is how I recorded it at the time, 'Something strange was coming out of the end of the pencil. It was Congo's first line.

  3. Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga - Wikipedia

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    Most think Toba Sōjō created Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga, who created a painting a lot like Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga; [8] however, it is hard to verify this claim. [10] [11] [12] The drawings of Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga are making fun of Japanese priests in the creator's time period, characterising them as toads, rabbits and monkeys.

  4. Nazca lines - Wikipedia

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    The Nazca lines (/ ˈ n ɑː z k ə /, /-k ɑː / [1]) are a group of over 700 geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. [2] [3] They were created between 500 BC and 500 AD by people making depressions or shallow incisions in the desert floor, removing pebbles and leaving different-colored dirt exposed. [4]

  5. Animal-made art - Wikipedia

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    Lolo the donkey ("Joachim-Raphaël Boronali") painting in front of witnesses. A painting partially made by Lolo the donkey, Et le soleil s'endormit sur l'Adriatique [] (Sunset Over the Adriatic) was exhibited at the 1910 Salon des Indépendants attributed to the 'excessivist' Genoan painter Joachim-Raphaël Boronali, an invention of writer and critic Roland Dorgelès, who painted much of the ...

  6. Three wise monkeys - Wikipedia

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    Though the teaching had nothing to do with monkeys, the concept of the three monkeys originated from a simple play on words. The saying in Japanese is mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru ( 見ざる, 聞かざる, 言わざる ) "see not, hear not, speak not" , where the -zaru is a negative conjugation on the three verbs, matching zaru , the rendaku form ...

  7. Primate - Wikipedia

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    These include the Diana monkey, Campbell's mona monkey, lesser spot-nosed monkey, western red colobus, king colobus (western black and white colobus), and sooty mangabey, which coordinate anti-predator alarm calls. [116] Among the predators of these monkeys is the common chimpanzee. [117]

  8. Two Monkeys (Bruegel) - Wikipedia

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    The painting depicts two monkeys shackled to an iron ring beneath an archway. Behind them, in the background, lies the city of Antwerp.The monkeys are red-capped mangabeys and, due to Antwerp's status as a port city, were probably taken from their natural habitat by animal traders.

  9. Western pygmy marmoset - Wikipedia

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    The western pygmy marmoset is the worlds smallest monkey.Pygmy marmosets have only a slight degree of sexual dimorphism; in the wild the average male weighs 110 g (3.9 oz), which is slightly smaller than the average female at 122 g (4.3 oz). [2]