Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Abe Vigoda is not dead yet

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   maureenbrian

   17 September 2012 at 7:15 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That is such a lovely, wistful face. I’m glad Mary chose it.

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   Draken

   17 September 2012 at 7:42 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Incidentally, ‘abe’ is Danish for ape (or monkey).

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   hillaryrettig

   17 September 2012 at 8:10 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   omg, it does look like AV! what an expression!

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   kevinalexander

   17 September 2012 at 8:13 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Tell me more about how that thing doesn’t look like Gene Wilder.

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   René

   17 September 2012 at 8:21 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I have seen it compared to the botched “Ecce Homo” in Spain. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/world/europe/botched-restoration-of-ecce-homo-fresco-shocks-spain.html

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   telamonides

   17 September 2012 at 9:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I’ll second the Gene Wilder suggestion.

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   Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart: My name is Legion, for we are many

   17 September 2012 at 10:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I said it before and I’ll say it again: that monkey looks like a butt.

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   Janine: Hallucinating Liar

   17 September 2012 at 10:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Do not forget Alan Tudyk.

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   Josh, Official SpokesGay

   17 September 2012 at 10:34 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That’s one of those images that strikingly reminds you of our close kinship. It’s just so human, that face.

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    Ms. Daisy Cutter, Vile Human Being

    17 September 2012 at 10:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    And I say again that it looks like a cross between a Greek Orthodox icon and a coco de mer.

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    DLC

    17 September 2012 at 11:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Oddly, Abe Vigoda is not dead, still.

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    augustpamplona

    17 September 2012 at 11:42 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    kevinalexander wrote

    Tell me more about how that thing doesn’t look like Gene Wilder.

    I thought I was the only one seeing that!

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    Olav

    17 September 2012 at 1:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    The research paper is on Plos One: Lesula: A New Species of Cercopithecus Monkey Endemic to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Implications for Conservation of Congo’s Central Basin.

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    cardinalsmurf

    17 September 2012 at 1:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Gene Wilder, sure I can see that. However, my first impression, especially from the eyes, was of Brad Garrett, the fella who plays brother Robert Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond.

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    Sili

    17 September 2012 at 2:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Draken has now made me redundant.

    I shall henceforth cease posting on Pharyngula.

    (I can see Wilder with a touch of Feldman. You work out the logistics.)

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    jim1138

    17 September 2012 at 3:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    CNN has a series.

    http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/africa/dr-congo-new-monkey/index.html

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    Caine, Divisitrix du mal

    17 September 2012 at 3:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I’m with Janine – Alan Tudyk. Definitely.

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    satanaugustine

    17 September 2012 at 9:37 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I said it before and I’ll say it again: that monkey looks like a butt.

    You are talking about a non-human butt, right?

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    pipenta

    18 September 2012 at 10:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    That is a hell of a photograph. It may be the most beautiful portrait I have seen all year.

    Damn, I wish I took that shot!