Her first novel, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989), was set in the bohemian world of the San Francisco Bay area during the 1960s.
In Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989), the main character—Whittman Ah Sing, named after Walt Whitman narrates a peculiarly 20th-century American odyssey; the book combines Eastern and Western literary traditions while emphasizing the Americanness of its characters.
Now, with the museum recently opened, what began as a response to a tragedy has been made official zoo policy: every animal that dies becomes an exhibit.So it is that frozen monkeys grace fake boughs, an ostrich stares forever into the distance, and, in a savannah scene, a slavering hyena drips plastic blood over the corpse of a zebra, under the gaze of an angry bear and a placid lion.
Then they checked to see if vision plays a role by examining whether the neurons changed their firing rates when the monkey saw the fake arm.
I see Dali-esque landscapes with strangely wrapped animals, a bandaged giraffe suspended in a late-romantic stage set, a monkey trapped clutching a fake tree.
Surely Ben Younger's dazzling take on sleazily grasping modern-day con men -- their monkey business is selling fake I.P.O.'s, not real estate swamplands named Glengarry Highlands -- would signify the taming of Mr. Mamet, master chronicler of human sharks.
The baby monkey may have been fake, but the emotions that its "death" provoked were heartbreakingly real.
In one experiment, baby rhesus monkeys were given two fake "mothers", one covered in soft towel, the other in wire mesh.
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In it, he shows that baby monkeys desire comfort from mothers, even fake ones, and even when food comes from elsewhere.
