Last week I saw on TV that several zoos were providing IPads for chimpanzees and orangutans who were fascinated with the colors and pictures on the screens. A keeper remarked that the hairy friends do get bored and this gets their attention. It reminded me of a story out of London ten years ago. The article goes "Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare." So the researchers left a computer in the monkey enclosure at a zoo in southwest England, home to six crested macaques. Then they waited. "They pressed a lot of Ss - a few As and Ms over five pages of text. Then they urinated all over the keyboard." So they had a lot of Ss - and a lot of Pee - at the end a few As and Ms - that spells SPAM. Thank goodness the send key jammed. Someone should have told them that key in the upper right stood for delete - not excrete. Anyway, it appears that Shakespeare is safe for a while.
tjs
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