# How I will get rich off monkeys
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-will-get-rich-off-monkeys/289348
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 10, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-will-get-rich-off-monkeys/289348 "2005-02-10T04:25:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@hiebram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hiebram)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-will-get-rich-off-monkeys/289348/1 "2005-02-10T04:25:40Z")
[This article](http://members.aol.com/mlucen/050131_monkeyface.htm) basically says that the reason we spend so much time buying tabloids and watching Hollywood news shows is an evolutionary holdover. Monkeys also have a tendency to prefer looking at pictures of individuals who are higher in their social structures. They are even willing to “pay” for the priviledge in juice, but it’s the last line that shows me where I’ll be making all my money:
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> On a more crude note, some of the findings might also shed light on humans’ taste for pornography: male monkeys in the study also willingly “paid” to see females’ rear ends.
I’m gonna start selling porno to monkeys!
“Banana-RAMA!”
“Banana-RAMA! 2: Skinning the Banana”
“Curious George Does Dallas”
“Meet the Monkey Fockers”
Hiebram
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### Author:  [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-will-get-rich-off-monkeys/289348/2 "2005-02-10T04:42:47Z")
Chimps Gone Wild
Behind The Green Banana
Gorilla My Dreams
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### Author:  [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-will-get-rich-off-monkeys/289348/3 "2005-02-10T04:56:17Z")
Is that a banana in your hand or are you just happy to see me?
A wild night in the Chicago Zoo.
Slutty chimp twins!