Macaqueing Around

by Meg on September 7, 2009

May your labor day be filled with cool pools of water, hot sun, and (not shown here) Monkey-sized Pabst Blue Ribbons.

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Thanks for the heads up / reminder / good-natured nagging Goodwin D.!

{ 59 comments }

1 earlybird1 09.07.09 at 11:17 am

Such nommable ears!

2 thepetmuseum 09.07.09 at 11:23 am

Return of macaque!

(Ah, that sweet babymonkey face – so grave and innocent at the same time.)

3 Jezebel 09.07.09 at 11:29 am

That little guy is ready for some fisticuffs!

4 Andi from NC 09.07.09 at 11:31 am

love the monkey-butt action in photo 3 (reminds of the diaper-less photo that all parents take of their wee ones) – too prosh!!!

5 Pheas 09.07.09 at 11:36 am

Pic 1 = Invisible Laundry

6 Brandi 09.07.09 at 11:36 am

Aw, there totally needs to be a ‘tock-hance on that third picture, of the little bare underwater ‘tocks!

7 Theresa 09.07.09 at 11:49 am

So the monkeys come again,
Here’s a family of three,
There’s a pool right by their den,
Dad sits and grooms his goatee.
Ready for some fisticuffs,
Little guy with wet cowlick,
Makin’ trouble for the nuffs,
Lookin’ badass, lookin’ slick.
:mrgreen:

8 Theresa 09.07.09 at 11:50 am

PS Peace, PG.

9 kibblenibble 09.07.09 at 12:00 pm

The three leetle fists in the first pic are keelingk me.

PS: Somebody with higher functioning eyeballs, please tell me, does baby have stitches on his head?

10 chanpon 09.07.09 at 12:08 pm

I spy a baby monkey butt! Baby macaque is soo floofy, but Mom (or Dad) looks like a little too much time with the crimper.

11 animalluvr 09.07.09 at 12:13 pm

omg look at pic 3…..TOCKULENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12 animalluvr 09.07.09 at 12:14 pm

i def agree, thepetmuseum–grave n innocent

13 Rafe 09.07.09 at 12:20 pm

No stitches…just a bald patch with some dark hair in the middle.

Love baby macaques!!!

14 victoreia 09.07.09 at 12:48 pm

“Marco!”
“Polo!”
“Monkeybutt!”

15 Nikki 09.07.09 at 12:48 pm

Exceptional photos!! Love how the two are grooming each other in the last pic while baby is trying to swim. And the first picture is just darling.

16 Poster 09.07.09 at 1:07 pm

OMG! The little fuzzball is covered with monkey-down!
CUTE fuzzball!!! :)

17 nyota 09.07.09 at 1:11 pm

He has feets for hands.

18 nyota 09.07.09 at 1:12 pm

And hands for feets!

19 earlybird1 09.07.09 at 1:39 pm

@Pheas: invisible washingks.. too funny!! LOL

20 Sarah 09.07.09 at 2:06 pm

Little swimming monkeybutt is my very favourite part of this. He so precious.
Here in New Zealand we’re heading into spring and so all the happy days of monkeybutt are ahead of me!

21 Illise 09.07.09 at 2:25 pm

Love monkeys the first pic is a tottaly kick ass lol he looks like he is posing for the attendants om a press conference of a boxing match lol

love the last picture too

22 pyrit 09.07.09 at 2:37 pm

Macaque tocks on the rocks at 6 o clock!

23 J. 09.07.09 at 4:02 pm

Enough monkeying around.

You guys having a Big Macacque attack or something?

24 joods 09.07.09 at 4:11 pm

bebeh. monkeh. butt.
my day is complete.
thank you.

25 Kati 09.07.09 at 4:56 pm

I think maybe they’d prefer Pabst Blue Gibbon?

26 Cambridge_Rat_Mom 09.07.09 at 5:25 pm

I’ve always had a real soft spot for macaques. Their faces are so eloquent.

27 Marie 09.07.09 at 5:52 pm

MONKEYS ARE NOT CUTE

28 Silly Mama 09.07.09 at 6:16 pm

I agree with Marie. While this little guy isn’t too bad, monkeys FREAK me OUT. Eeeeeeee!

29 Dreamspinner Cheryl 09.07.09 at 7:08 pm

Not all monkeys are cute-but this little guy is adorable! Hang in there, Marie. Meg and Co. manage to offer cute for all tastes and preferences. Long Live CO!!

30 Berg 09.07.09 at 7:32 pm

@Kati: I wish I’d thought of that–good one!

I join the chorus of those in favor of monkey butts. I find them absolutely adorable, particularly when swimming.

31 Brammi 09.07.09 at 7:47 pm

What, no Nuffers screaming “GIVING MONKEYS BEER CAN KILL THEM I AM NEVER COMING HERE AGAIN AND AM FLUSHING MY C.O. CALENDAR DOWN THE TOILET WHERE YOU HORRIBLE PEOPLE BELONG!!!”

Can you post a puppy in a toaster oven next? I haven’t laughed so hard in weeks.

A++ trolling, will lol again.

32 Jae 09.07.09 at 8:02 pm

I think pic #1 looks like invisible cow-milking, but invisible laundry is also good!

33 Kafkacat 09.07.09 at 8:08 pm

I think there needs to be a contest of who can photoshop the cutest thing into bebeh monkey’s hands in pic #1. ready aaaaaaaaaaaaaand….GO!

34 Samantha 09.07.09 at 8:14 pm

Is Meg…. a hipster?!?
I thought only hipsters drank PBR and everyone else realized how disgusting it was.

Anyway, I wish my Labor Day was that nice. Instead it consisted of running around campus trying to find a working printer and a heaping dose of rain.

35 fish eye no miko 09.07.09 at 10:31 pm

Picture one… invisible dairy cow!

36 Hon Glad 09.07.09 at 11:49 pm

Would one of you Muricans explain to a Brit, what happens on Labor (Labour) day.. Is it all picnic baskets and gingham and Shirley Jones singing “Many a new day” or our you all sent down the mines to hew coal for the good of the nation?

37 Hon Glad 09.07.09 at 11:49 pm

or are you

38 nuko 09.08.09 at 1:57 am

It’s Labor Day Weekend. Have a nice day!!

39 speffles 09.08.09 at 3:03 am

I am also from the UK and have questions

Is labour day when you all have to stop wearing white shoes?
I thought Blue Ribbon was a kind of wafery, chocolately biscuit thing?
What’s a nuffer (and why are they always so angry)?
Who doesn’t find monkeys cute…?

40 Lucy's Mommeh 09.08.09 at 4:06 am

Would rather the da monkehs a good Blue Moon instead of Blue Ribbon. Beastest beer EVAH.

41 Darcy 09.08.09 at 4:29 am

Wow so cool! One big happy family, having their party at the pool. :)

42 snorglepup 09.08.09 at 4:39 am

OK silly Brits, or anyone with backward seasons…
Labor Day is the last hurrah of the summer before kids return to school
Since this is Tues. morning, it’t back to the coal mines for me…

43 bookmonstercats 09.08.09 at 4:46 am

Why “Labor” Day? (yes, A. N. Other Brit). I can see why “Thanksgiving” Day, and “Independence” Day, but not “Labor” (presumably, as the Hon Glad says, “Labour”).

Ta, old beans.

44 Pheas 09.08.09 at 5:00 am

From: http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm

Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

45 ME 09.08.09 at 5:28 am

Baby monkeys are alway adorable!

46 Theresa 09.08.09 at 6:34 am

@Speffles, nowadays, you NEVER have to stop wearing white shoes if you want to. Unless you have this dog:
http://ihasahotdog.com/2009/09/08/funny-dog-pictures-labor-day/

47 Theresa 09.08.09 at 6:35 am

@Hon Glad you are the bomb.

48 Hon Glad 09.08.09 at 6:50 am

Pheas – For an Anti – Communist country, it all sounds a bit commie to me. They’ll be stealing our esscence next.

49 Pheas 09.08.09 at 7:04 am

Yeah, Hon Glad, I’m kind of surprised we have that holiday myself. And truth be told, for most folks it’s as snorglepup said, the last hurrah of summer. School often used to start after Labor Day, although it seems most places now start in August. Labor Day is also typically the last day municipal swimming pools are open. And, Theresa’s comment notwithstanding, it remains the day many of us pack away our white shoes.

50 kittyadventures 09.08.09 at 7:37 am

Actually honoring the people who makes this country tick is quite in keeping with our countries by the people for the people theme. Dontcha think. Long live the blue collar worker and his beer. Pops a cold one even though it is no longer Labor Day.

Viva the Workers.

51 Kristabelle 09.08.09 at 7:47 am

What a cute little monkey!!!!

52 Tractatus Blorpico-Philosophicus 09.08.09 at 9:09 am

To round off the Labor Day comments for UK peeps, I think of it as like the Aug Bank Holiday – marks end of summer holidays, & school (for children, not uni, I mean) starts the next day. In its official/original purpose, it’s like the May Day celebrated across Europe (which doesn’t exist in the US).

Also, because of our ridiculous capitalism-at-all-costs system, we have way fewer national holidays & paid-holidays-from work than in the UK, so the ones we do have take on greater significance, like L Day (or Thanksgiving, etc.).

Re “I thought Blue Ribbon was a kind of wafery, chocolately biscuit thing” (above), wasn’t sure if this was a joke/pun question that I didn’t get, but if it’s straight, then the answer is no! I can’t think of any brand of biscuit with a similar name, even. Sowwy!

53 baileysgrandmom 09.08.09 at 9:19 am

First pic: another ’shop suggestion…how about a teeny little double bass…you know, so we could have some swingin’ (from the trees) jazz?!?

[Here's a little somethin' for ya - Ed.]

54 Kristabelle 09.08.09 at 1:00 pm

Jungle Book is one of my all time favorites!!! You-ou-ou, I wanna be like you-ou-ou. I wanna walk like you, hoo! talk like you, hoo… thank you for that ear worm! I love it!
It also gets Calendar Sqwerl out of my head, which I was inexplicably singing today as I walked the dogs at lunch time… the dogs were not impressed.

55 tblue 09.08.09 at 3:30 pm

Little froggy monkey-tocks!

56 Blossom Kat 09.08.09 at 7:30 pm

I too love the fluffy floatin baby monkeh butt.

57 Kay Day 09.08.09 at 8:23 pm

@Theresa
nice poem :)

58 Fia Luna 09.09.09 at 7:25 pm

Sorry to be a downer…..it’s the vet tech in me.

I hope poor little monkey is being treated for his severely swollen right foot (pic 1)

59 Lezzy Lady 09.16.09 at 10:22 pm

If you look closer Fia Luna, it looks as if his toes are curled under… there are no toenails showing on that foot while there are on his left foot. It is also shorter than the left, but not a lot due to the perspective.
Oh, and by the way- MONKEY BUTTS ARE ADORABLE!! ^_^

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