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If you like this stuff, the Wellcome Library has a cool blog of curiosities: http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/ |
9. Loving the Monkey-fish! Pity that he contains none of the major ingredient, monkey. Can I ask what the teeth are made of, are they wood or clay? Perhaps made out of chicken, the ever elusive ‘hens teeth’! |
• The teeth are made of fish bone, according to Horniman research, and the curators are getting these DNA tested to find out what species of fish was used. Fascinating! |
Thank you for loving monkey-fish, he is very happy! |
• HA! I did find a 1938 article about a member of his family when he was called the Manchu man-fish, I have posted about it today and included a link to this post. |
10. you could try manchester’s natural history museum here in the UK Im sure Ive seen one there ??? they have other stuff of interest to your museum Im sure there can be some dialog for mutual satifaction 🙂 james rochdale UK |
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• Good question! Monkey-fish were exhibited in the past as genuine animals by show-men to an incredulous Victorian public. Our exhibition displayed it as an example of a forgery – a fake monkey on a fake fish! I hope that helps clear things up? Thank you for visiting. |
• Thank you, glad you like him. I did have a nightmare about monkey-fish the first time I saw him – sort of creeping through the corridors – but the little beastie grows on you. If you hear of anything weirder, let me know! |
12. While I do appreciate academic findings that further explain where we have come from as a species, I don’t think that this post could have been creepier. It’s a fish. With a monkey head. At the very least, it redefines “surf and turf”. |
• That is funny! One of my work mates truly believed that monkey-fish was the ‘missing link’ until we explained that he was made mostly of paper mache and fish-and-chicken bits. Sorry to have creeped you out ;o) |
13. Thank you to everyone who liked this post about monkey-fish! The little fella couldn’t be more pleased. It has really made his day – and mine! I am now going to make a cup of tea and do my best to answer the great comments. |
• You were not alone! Captain Eades, a 19th-century American sea captain, sold his ship (that wasn’t even his) to buy the Feejee mermaid (a famous monkey-fish fraud) because he thought it was real (it wasn’t). It is still a mystery who made this monkey-fish and why. I hope Paolo, its curator, can unravel it. Thank ... |
14. OK. I like monkeys (the stuffed kind) very much. I do a video with one every Monday. Thankfully, he does not have teeth like this creature. My monkey hath not teeth – like chickens have no teeth. |
My question is this: if there are no monkey parts, then doesn’t the mystery deepen? What the heck kind of man-eating chicken has teeth like that? Huh? Now that would be scary! Let them start breeding…Lord! That would be the end of the McNugget, for sure! |
• The mystery does indeed deepen… These mermen are thought to be over thousands of years old in Japanese Shinto shrines, but only became known in 18th and 19th centuries through trade between Japan and the West. I would love to know how old this monkey-fish is, where he came from originally and who made him. |
I do hope there are no man-eating chickens with sharp fish teeth roaming about! Thank you for visiting and, um, beware of chickens! |
15. I was drawn to this with hopes of a discovery of a new species! lol. I love your elaborate ponderings of wht it could POSSIBLY be! It looks like a shrunken head on a cod. |
• I hope I didn’t disappoint! I thought it was a shrunken baby monkey head when I first saw it and was quite worried. Fortunately, it is just made of papier-mâché, although actual fish teeth and tail. Thank you for visiting, if you discover any strange new species let me know 🙂 |
16. Brilliant! People might be fascinated also by the work of Spanish artist/photographer Joan Fontcuberta, particularly his series called “Fauna”. I just adore the flying elephants. |
17. This is a hilarious post. There is a monkey fish in Karen Joy Fowler’s book, Sarah Canary, and it’s terrifying. The funniest thing is how much hype this thing seemed to cause. It’s so bizarre that I can’t tell if this is really convincing satirical fiction, or a well told anecdote. Cool story. |
• Thank you, Ben. I am glad you enjoyed it. It was pretty hilarious having a monkey-fish visit my work – that part is true 🙂 You are right, these fake creatures caused a lot of hype among Victorians who loved collecting cabinets of curiosities. |
‘Sarah Canary’ sounds like a great book, I will check it out! |
• Gosh! As a beekeeper, I am always on the look-out for woodpeckers in winter as they burrow holes into hives to eat bees, larvae, comb and honey. No wonder if they can peck 20 times per second, amazing! |
Thank you for visiting and sharing also! 🙂 |
18. This is a great post and it looks a fine exhibition, but whilst monkey-fish’s head is evidently made of paper, his teeth are surely real teeth? Monkey teeth? Chicken teeth? |
• You are right, the teeth are real but not monkey teeth. Horniman research has uncovered that fish teeth were inserted into the papier-mâché head. Paolo said they were doing DNA testing to find out what species of fish were used to make monkey-fish! Those guys leave no stone unturned! Thank you for visiting and yo... |
19. Interesting post. Funny enough, there is also a monkey fish in Banff, Alberta that has always fascinated me. Although there was no description or write up on the display, it’s just there under glass in one of the stores. |
20. Apparently 19th-century British scholars thought the platypus was faked when a specimen was brought back from Australia. They dissected it, tested it and scrutinised it only to discover that it was real. Nature’s own little joke. |
21. Wow. Did not expect such as lovely response to monkey-fish or to be Freshly Pressed. Tickled pink (me, not monkey-fish). |
A big thank you to all the great WordPress bloggers who liked and commented on this post. And a huge thank you to WordPress for being such a brilliant place to blog with like-minded people! |
22. This reminds me of when I first heard that people used to think that the platypus wasn’t real, they believed that it was an egg-laying beaver/otter with a duck’s bill, nature has popped out some interesting phenomena I just had to see if a monkey-fish was real, |
• What’s funny is that people DIDN’T believe in the platypus but they DID believe in the monkey-fish. People are stranger than fiction. |
You are right, there certainly is interesting phenomena out there! Thank you for visiting and for your comment. |
23. Some years ago I read on a newspaper someone found a dragon fetus preserved in a bottle which had been forgotten in the Louvre basements for decades. But now I don’t know if professors think it is a real dragon or just a joke! I’m just a little curious about it… |
Very nice and interesting post! 🙂 |
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25. This would have been a million times better if you just told me that monkey fish was found in an underwater tomb in japan and was indeed half fish, half unidentifiable creature from mythical asia. |
• Yes. Darwin discovered the species in the Galapagos but hid it from the rest of the world fearing they were not ready for the ‘missing link’. |
What I have just passed off as fact is actually a lie. |
No. Monkey-fish is not real. He is made of papier-mâché. 🙂 |
26. It looks scary. Still so many “creature” in our world. And maybe we still don’t know. |
Thank for your great information |
27. When I was a kid we went to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum in – I think it was St. Augustine, Florida. It was a great, big old Victorian building. There we saw a “mermaid” – maybe this very same one….but it was a genuine monkey which had been sewn to a fish and was really ancient, allegedly from the latter... |
• Gosh! We have a Ripley’s too at Piccadilly Circus, London. I got lost in the maze of mirrors. Ripley’s popularity shows people still want to be incredulous and amazed just like in Barnum’s time! I wonder where the Floridian monkey-fish came from? |
Thank you for visiting 🙂 |
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