![]() ![]() Large areas of Santa Rosa’s forests had at one time been burnt to make space for cattle ranching and coffee farming, thereby devastating local monkey habitat. The value of maturing forests to primates is also a subject of study at Santa Rosa National Park, about 35 miles northwest of La Pacifica. ![]() In younger forests, trees put most of their limited energy into growing wood, leaves, and fruit, so they produce much lower levels of toxin than do well-established, old-growth trees.ĭ. The leaves that grow in regenerating forests, like those at La Pacifica, are actually more howler-friendly than those produced by the centuries-old trees that survive farther south. Watching generations of howlers at La Pacifica has shown Glander that the monkeys keep their systems primed by sampling a variety of plants and then focusing on a small number of the most nutritious food items. Glander is particularly interested in howlers’ ability to thrive on leaves loaded with toxins- poisonous substances designed to protect the plants. For leaf-eaters, long-term exposure to a specific plant toxin can increase their ability to neutralize the poisonous substances and absorb the leaf nutrients. They eat fruit when it is available but, unlike capuchin and spider monkeys, do not depend on large areas of fruiting trees. ![]() Howlers persists at La Pacifica, Glander explains, because they are leaf-eaters. In the 18 th century, tropical dry forests once covered most of Central America, but by the 1980s less than two percent remained undisturbed, and less than one percent was protected.Ĭ. Studying such disturbed woodlands is increasingly important because throughout much of the New World Tropics, these are the only forests left. Ken Glander, a primatologist from Duke University in the USA, is studying La Pacifica’s monkeys in an effort to understand the relationship between howlers and regenerating forests at the edges of grazing lands. ![]() In November 2019, Consoomer, a variation of -Oomer Wojak meme, gained popularity as a part of the trend.B. Consume ProductĬonsume Product refers to a genre of memes poking fun at consumerism, particularly at fans of the major pop culture franchises such as Star Wars and superhero films. Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition is a phrase used in image macros to humorously point out the change to an object or place over time, positioning the earlier version as superior. Related Memes Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition For example, between April 5th to June 27th, 2020, /r/ape subreddit grew from 329 to over 28,100 subscribers, becoming the major hub for Return to Monke memes on the platform. While already proliferating on iFunny and in certain Facebook groups during the early months of 2020, the Return to Monke memes did not see mainstream spread on other platforms until approximately April 2020. As of July 1st, 2020, the image had 6 comments and 42 shares. The earliest known post containing the exact phrase "Return to Monke" is a post made to the Facebook group The Chimp Zone: Primate Portal, showcasing an ape with a spear with the caption "Revolt Against Humanity, Return to Monky". The account collected over 1,300 memes in nine months and accumulated over 9,100 subscribers in that period, contributing to the spread of Return to Monke memes and Monkey memes in general (notable posts and Repubs shown below). On October 12th, 2019, iFunny novelty account MonkeyArchive was created, collecting notable memes either featuring or referencing monkeys and apes. Starting in 2019 and futher in 2020, following an increase in popularity of the anarcho-primitivism ideology and the spread of memes associated with it, memes in which apes (usually erroneosly referred to as monkeys or monkes) served as a symbolic representation of the archaic ways of life, gained spread online, spreading to Instagram, Facebook, Reddit and other online platforms. In 2019, the budding trend received further support through the popularization of Le Monke memes and memes imagining atheists having an ape as their parent or grandparent (examples shown below). While not yet a developed meme at that time, some of the earliest documented memes indicating iFunny's infatuation with monkeys are mid-2018 memes Ok So Basically I'm Monke and CGI Monkeys Dancing (examples shown below), both of which later found strong popularity in more mainstream meme communitites such as /r/okbuddyretard and Instagram. Return to Monke's spread is tied to the popularization of monkey memes on the meme app iFunny, with app userbase's obsession with monkeys starting to manifest itself approximately in middle 2018. ![]()
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