MoJo Voyage - A Travel Blog!

MoJo Voyage

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Hi Everybody! I wanted to announce my new blog - MoJo Voyage - A Travel Blog! I have been on so many adventures that I thought I would start to share my pictures with everyone. So I expect a lot of posts in the beginning as I catch up with all my photos! If you follow this blog, don't worry I will let you know when I post something there!

Thanks for checking it out!

-MoJo

P.S If you forget the address - the link is my link Section ; )

Mr. Giggles!

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Thumbs UP! - Space Monkeys!

This is a story I wanted to tell everyone about for a long time, but I honestly never got around to doing it. However there has been a lot of news lately about the Apollo Missions in which a human landed on the moon and returned safely back to earth, and it made me think of those incredibly brave space monkeys who were some of the first animals in space - because you humans were just too scared! The picture above is of Baker, a squirrel monkey, who was also a Space Monkey!

Able and Baker were the first living creatures from the US to go into space and experience weightlessness and come back to earth safely. Two years before humans finally got the courage!

10 years had passed where lots of other monkeys tried being astronauts but died for various reasons. Sadly even Able died a few days later due the effects of anesthesia after surgery.

But Baker lived on for another 25 years as an active member in the monkey space community and mostly spent her time at the U.S Space and Rocket Center in Alabama trying to educate humans on how to handle the final frontier!

She was very popular and received almost 150 letters a day up until her death in 1984 of Kidney failure.

We will not forget you Baker - you were one courageous monkey!

For more Click Here!

Peel a Banana Like a Monkey? From a Human?

Really?? I don't know what to say about this:

http://video.yahoo.com/network/100000089?v=5485051&l=100022574

LEarn to peel a banana like a monkey from a human?!? I guess I will have to show you guys how to really do it!

I wanted you all to hear about it from me, as the video seems to be making the rounds on the internets.

The problem here really is that the video simply demonstrates one of the many ways to peel a banana - calling it the "monkey style". Not really how we do it. I'm not to sure you should be using the internet if you have to look up "how to peel a banana".

Until I get my video up stick to your wiki's: http://www.wikihow.com/Peel-a-Banana, your banana phones: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgerphone, and your banana suits: http://www.prankplace.com/costume_banana.htm

- MoJo

Stay Young with the Monkey Diet!

(Picture via NY Times)

Hi Everybody - Say hello to Canto (left, age 27) and Owen (right, age 29). Scientists at the University of Wisconsin have been studying these two Rhesus monkeys to see if diet controls the aging process.

For 20 years Canto has been on a restricted diet and Owen has been free to eat whatever he wants! They believe that by limiting Canto's calories to 1/3rd of Owen's that they have proven a link between aging and diet.

So if you eat better you will look younger (though Owen looks a bit happier if you ask me).

People are now wondering if this kind of diet control would work on humans - because everyone wants to stay young! - Click Here

More from the NY Times - Click Here

This all sounds pretty good. I wish they would pay me to see what the aging effects are on a monkey (or person) who lives in Disneyland!

BREAKING NEWS!! NEW MONKEY DISCOVERED!!

Above is a drawing of a new species of Monkey that has recently been discovered in Brazil! It was originally spotted in 2007 in the Brazilian state of Amazonas and is related to the saddleback tamarin monkeys, known for their distinctively marked backs.

"The small monkey, which is mostly gray and brown and weighs 213 grams (0.47 pound), has been named the Mura's saddleback tamarin after the Mura Indian tribe of the Purus and Madeira river basins where the new sub-species was found. It is 240 millimeters (9.4 inches) tall with a 320 millimeter (12.6 inch) tail."

Well welcome Mura's Saddleback Tamarin (I think I'll just call you MST for short) to the monkey family!

For more Click Here!

Happy 4th of July!

Hi Everybody - Just a quick note to wish everyone a Happy 4th of July!

Hope its a great day! Now I have to get back to my grillin' before I burn my wieners!

Bye

- MoJo

Bubbles (and Michael Jackson)

I really can't go far on the TV or the Internets without seeing something about this Michael Jackson guy. I didn't really know much about him until he died, but it turns out I did know his music! And it was pretty good - fun and upbeat - and crazy dance moves! I only discovered the dance moves after searching on the YouTube.

One thing I found out is that he was a friend to monkeys and chimps! He actually had one chimp (named Bubbles) that he took care of. So it is sad that we lost a friend to the primate community with Mr. Jackson's death. But I'm pleased to report that Bubbles is doing well and is living in Florida in the Center for Great Apes! That sounds pretty awesome to me!

"The Center for Great Apes’ mission is to provide a permanent sanctuary for orangutans and chimpanzees who have been retired from the entertainment industry, from research, or who are no longer wanted as pets. The Center provides care with dignity in a safe, healthy, and enriching environment for great apes in need of lifetime care."

Bubbles is currently the "Featured Resident", and you can currently support him and other chimps and orangutans directly on the website: https://www.centerforgreatapes.org/make-a-donation.aspx

Bubbles wasn't the only primate that Mr. Jackson took care of and was friends with, though he was the most famous (one artists even made statues of him). Though I think that I can do the Moonwalk better than him!

For more information on this story:

http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20287787_20288466,00.html

http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/people/stars-death-leaves-bubbles-and-co-in-limbo-20090629-d2hi.html

Monkey Marketing!

On July 1st 1979 (30 years ago) people could finally take their music with them in a small-portable fashion with a Sony Walkman!

It was a portable music player like today's popular iPod! Except it played cassettes. Everyone can trust a monkey. That's why Sony hired a monkey to help advertise its cool Sony Walkman.

Another Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlhIQYd-qAg

The monkey featured in this video is named Mr.Choromatsu, who was an monkey-actor and died in 2007. He looked so relaxed - I wonder what music he was listening to?

For more info on the Walkman Click Here