Monkeys Practice Herding Us

Here are monkeys riding around on sheepdogs herding goats:

Scary, huh? As monkeys learn how to do more and more things, they approach a world where they don’t need us anymore and take over. Thus the Planet of the Apes. Of course, the same thing is happening with robots which leads to a Terminator future. So really, the future awaiting all of us is Planet of the Apes versus Terminator — and I don’t know who will win there.

Of course, it kinda looks like in the video that the sheepdogs are actually doing all the work and the monkeys are just hanging on for dear life, which makes the video less scary and more funny.

18 Comments

  1. I’ve seen this act twice in Wilmington now. It’s really not as exciting as the title “Cowboy Monkey Rodeo” makes it sound. It’s really just a demonstration of herding sheep with the added feature of monkeys.

  2. Kinda like Obama, the dogs do all the work and he’s just along for the ride and taking all the credit.

    If you want to take the analogy farther and equate the guy in the tacky cowboy outfit to George Soros, go ahead.

    (And, am I aware of the possibilities of offending someone by comparing Obama to monkeys? Yep. Do I care? Nope.)

  3. The monkeys are clearly just along for the ride, like an Obama hagiographer.

    Dogs are the future. They have the brains and the means to rule. Thankfully, they will let us live in comfort because they like to lick our hands. Also, they need humans to clean them. Gosh, my German Shepherd stinks.

  4. Clearly, monkeys and robots are a threat to our continued human dominance. The best thing to do is to conspire with the dogs and find a way to get monkeys and robots to fight each other, then whoever wins will be so weakened that humans and dogs can easily finish them off.

    Personally, I think it’s very degrading to the monkeys to compare Obama to them. Monkeys have a lot more sense than Obama. Heck, that clump of dirt I see out in the parking lot of my office has more sense than Obama.

  5. Of course, it kinda looks like in the video that the sheepdogs are actually doing all the work and the monkeys are just hanging on for dear life…

    Proof of this: If the monkeys had been free to use their monkey wiles, they would have gotten the sheep on the truck merely by throwing their own monkey poo at them.

    Was I the only one yelling, “Focus! Focus d*mn*t” at my screen?

  6. Thanks Son of Bob….well said. I have a border collie and I am sickened by these filthy useless apes getting all the glory on the backs of such hard-working dogs. Hey, the more you think of it…the more that it is a perfect metaphor for our political landscape nowadays. Yikes. I hate monkeys.

  7. Can someone get that twit in the white house to watch this, and maybe he will get some idea of what it is to work? These monkeys along for the ride work harder than the simian in charge. I bet if these monkeys knew there was an oil gush in the gulf of mexico, they would be all like, hey get something here from Holland to suck up the excess oil, get a sub down there with some arms and weld the hole shut. Get some sponges and clean up the shore. The simian is charge just says four!

  8. If the monkeys learned to pick fleas off the dogs, they might have a basis for a symbiotic relationship; which would leave us trying to form an alliance with the goats against the robots! No! Bad dog! Eat that d*mn monkey, don’t play with it!

  9. I would be more worried about this. Dogs are smart creatures, some are very strong, and they know how to organize. What keeps them from destroying us is their lack of tool-using and communication abilities. (Note that “beggin strips” commercial where the dog says “I’d get it myself, but I don’t have THUMBS”). These people don’t realize that what they’re doing is equipping dogs, smart ruthless dogs, with opposable thumbs and tool use capabilities. Once the dogs figure out how to train the monkeys for “texting”, they will have access to a global communication network paid for by humans. This could be the beginning of the end.

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