Discovery News reports:
What may be the most natural cologne in the world was recently discovered in a Mexican forest. The ingredients? Monkey spit and chewed up leaves.
According to a paper in this month's issue of the journal Primates, male Mexican spider monkeys chew the leaves of three aromatic plants: the Alamos pea tree, which has fragrant leaves and flowers, a flowering trumpet tree, and wild celery.
The ritual, which typically takes anywhere from 30 seconds to two minutes, was deemed monkey "self-anointing" by Matthias Laska, a professor of zoology at Linkoping University in Sweden.
Laska and his colleagues observed the behavior 20 times in two male spider monkeys that were part of a free-ranging group at the Parque de Flora y Fauna Silvestra Tropical in Veracruz, Mexico.
The researchers determined the monkeys always applied just one plant species at a time. The application was routine, not unlike a man who regularly spritzes on deodorant or cologne.
Next step, Binaca.
I believe the Binanca is already taken care of by chewing the aromatic leaves. I'm not sure what the next step is, but the final step to metrosexuality might be shaving off all his body hair.
Posted by: ken | November 30, 2006 at 02:14 PM
Then he'd look exactly like Truman Capote.
Posted by: gail | November 30, 2006 at 02:21 PM
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Posted by: Jake | December 01, 2006 at 12:40 PM