# Snow Monkeys and Snowball fights

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-monkeys-and-snowball-fights/39150>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 31, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-monkeys-and-snowball-fights/39150 "2000-10-31T22:06:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Colin\_Trainer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@Colin\_Trainer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colin_Trainer)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-monkeys-and-snowball-fights/39150/1 "2000-10-31T22:06:49Z")

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Do snow monkeys have snowball fights? If not could you teach them?

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-monkeys-and-snowball-fights/39150/2 "2000-11-01T00:51:33Z")

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Yes, but being good monkeys, they mix the snow with feces.

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-monkeys-and-snowball-fights/39150/3 "2000-11-01T01:11:17Z")

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Could we also train them to become Snow Monkey butlers?

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-monkeys-and-snowball-fights/39150/4 "2000-11-01T05:40:52Z")

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“Like every human child from Duluth to Murmansk, a young Japanese macaque has learned what to do when snow falls. Here in Joshinetsu Plateau National Park near Nagano, juvenile macaques often make snowballs and carry them around as play objects. While adults don’t make snowballs, they are not above playing with those made by the young, says photographer Mitsuaki Iwago. He also saw two young macaques rolling a snowball together, and another young one standing on top of its creation. But, in answer to a universal question, no one has ever reported seeing a macaque throw a snowball.” – “Animals at Play” by Stuart L. Brown, _National Geographic_, December 1994

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**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-monkeys-and-snowball-fights/39150/5 "2000-11-01T16:16:32Z")

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**MEBuckner’s** sig:  
_ **They’ll take my Mark of the Beast when they pry it from my cold, dead hand.** _

Hey, **ME** , wouldn’t that be your cold, dead forehead? 😉

Sua

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-monkeys-and-snowball-fights/39150/6 "2000-11-01T16:51:09Z")

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“He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his **right hand** or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.” – [Revelation 13:16-17](http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?passage=REV+13:16-17&language=english&version=NIV&showfn=on)

(“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.” – _The Merchant of Venice_, Act I, Scene iii)