drunken monkeys
...In the end my amusement and the behavior study of the drunken dog had completely and miserable failed. I was left again, all alone with my drunken self and a sober dog. In this state I became unable to perform any kind of scientific study, but my pet dog sure had a good time watching me, or was he really studying my behavior? I guess that you could say that he has been studying me for sometime now and figured that he did not want to be seen as I have been seen through his eyes. Even though my experiments have been a complete failure, some scientists are achieving progress with a particular kind of monkey known as the rhesus. These animals that once roamed free in the great wilderness of Mother Nature are now very happily caged up in their own personal metal plated liquor saloons. Living every second of their life in pleasure and loving it, just as much as the first day they entered this drunken monkey heaven. (I wish that I could sign up for program studies like this and my friends too.) There are of course a few that only partakes occasionally in these drinking festivity while the others have had their lips turned into super glue that have been permanently sealed around the once open bottles of liquor. This is where the scientists steps in with their collections of data through continuous studies and have determined a distinguishing difference between the two typical social patterns emerging from the rhesus monkeys. They are classified into two separate groups, one group that drinks continuously and the other that drinks occasionally. Just like today we have the compulsive drinker and the casual drinker in our social society. The data collected from the scientist strongly shows a chemical difference between to two types. This indicates a leveling of the chemical hormone in the monkey’s brain known as serotonin. The same hormone is also in the human brain which is in a sense, the brakes of the brain. Characteristics of the monkeys with high actively levels of serotonin have shown these animals to control their social behavior and are less likely to get into fights. The monkeys with lower levels of serotonin behave compulsively and tend to get into more fights. However, through the fifth teen years of studying the scientist say that it is not only the bad genes that create this out of control impulsive behavior. The rearing of the child hood also has a major impact of the animal’s characteristics. The monkeys that are reared by their mother are shown how to control their impulsive nature by the adult figur...