Monkeys Learn to Recognize Themselves in a Mirror – And Promptly Check Out Their Butts. [Via]

JoeJoe the Capybara Sloppily Devours a Red Popsicle in Honor of ‘Capybara Appreciation Day’.

“O, Excellent Air Bag”: Humphry Davy and Nitrous Oxide. [Via]

New Backlit Paper Sculptures by Hari & Deepti.

Renaissance-Era Drawings Reveal Early Ideas About Evolution.

Brian the Mentally Ill Bonobo, and How He Healed: It took a troop of apes, and a psychiatrist, and a little Paxil.

Erotica Written By An Alien Pretending Not To Be Horrified By The Human Body. Erotica Written By Someone With An Appropriate Sense of Privacy.

Chimpanzees Are Better at Strategic Reasoning Than Humans Are.

Reviving the art of Filipino tribal tattoos. [Via]

Truppe Fledermaus & The Carnival at the End of the World. 100 Views of a Drowning World by Kahn & Selesnick.

MetaFilter's Downfall.

Should a Chimp Be Able to Sue Its Owner? "Steven Wise is arguing for the legal 'personhood' of chimps and other animals. And no one is laughing him out of the courtroom." [Via]

The Future.

Beautiful Death. Beautiful Game of Thrones Posters Lament One Death from Each Episode.

The new generation of eagle hunters of Mongolia. [Via]

These gloves will "change the way we make music," says Imogen Heap. [Via]

When female capuchin monkeys want sex, they throw stones at the males.

Bibo. "It started as an idea about a lonely robot who sells ice cream. In order to survive in a severe reality he recreates an imaginary world where he lives every day, like he did during the best time of his life." [Via]

Kirsty Mitchell Photography. "After Losing Mother To Brain Cancer, Artist Finds Peace In Surreal Photography." [Via Blort, previously on MeFi]

Nietzsche and the Burbs. [Via]