result of their handicap?
2006-11-19 05:33:02 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The members of the ape families does this also, along with picking other orifices as well. Oh wait, I forgot, some consider us to have evolved from the ape.
2006-11-19 05:34:42 · answer #1 · answered by Sparkles 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, haven't you ever seen a gorilla inthe zoo? Theypick their noses all the time. Why did you think they had such big nostrils...? And they have other gross and disgusting habits as well. Some of them even try to jump other male gorillas, while their backs are turned, but they can't be expected to understand that it's wrong. It's a good thing we don't have to be like them any longer.
19 NOV 06, 1853 hrs, GMT.
2006-11-19 13:49:21 · answer #2 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Octopus and squid can also pick their noses and it is suspected that they would be very good at this due to their prodigious number of nose-picking appendages. However, no one has witnessed this because biologists have not been able to find an octopus with a nose.
Also, some primates have been observed in what was thought to be nose picking, but it was later discovered that they were just storing peanuts.
2006-11-19 13:45:15 · answer #3 · answered by Wallster 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have on occasion been inclined to hook a few bogeys out of my nostrils. I am not handicapped in anyway since I have rather wide nostrils and can get 2 fingers up at one time to find the really difficult one to locate.
2006-11-19 13:47:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've seen chimps picking their noses and other places on their bodies, to them it not an inconvience nor a handicap, it's a normal natural part of who and what they are.
2006-11-19 13:51:18 · answer #5 · answered by Nancy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Monkeys can pick their noses (lol) Alot of animals cant do that I think just the group of monkeys can
2006-11-19 13:39:46 · answer #6 · answered by tiara 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No I was at the zoo yesterday & the gorilla was having a good pick at his nose & was eating it too. He was also coughing up phlem & was spitting it onto his hand & licking it off. I didnt stand around too long to see what other bad habits he had!!!!!!!!!
2006-11-19 13:37:15 · answer #7 · answered by vic 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hoofed animals, especially giraffes dislike having blocked noses so will also clean them out by inserting its tongue into its nostrils.
2006-11-19 13:41:24 · answer #8 · answered by James W 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i've seen monkeys/orangutans/apes on the animal planet doing it, but most other animals just sneeze 'til the boogies are all gone
2006-11-19 13:35:25 · answer #9 · answered by rachel 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope humans arent the only ones.....Monkeys do
2006-11-19 17:30:16 · answer #10 · answered by Candy F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋