Silflay Hraka

Don't You Know You Gotta....Stock The Monkey!

Medical research monkeys are getting more expensive.

Drug companies have also bought up commercial monkey colonies, further depleting populations. That, along with an increasing demand for disease-free monkeys with specific genetic traits, has helped to drive the cost of a single rhesus monkey to $5,000 to $12,000 in 2003 from $1,000 to $1,500 in 1990.

There's gold in them thar primates. Time to start my own monkey farm. South Carolina seems like a nice place for it. Plus, one of the perks of monkey farming is that there's apparently an unending supply of monkey skulls from those who die before their time that can be used around the house; as candle holders, drinking vessels, piggy banks, whatever there's a need for.

Certainly I'd be the hit of the neighborhood every Halloween.