Monkeys toenails.

This may seem a stupid question, but as me old dad used to say if you don't ask you'll never know. I was cutting my toenails earlier, they grow very fast, and I just wondered.
How do Monkeys manage to cut their toenails in the wild?

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Well they sit and lean against a tree then foot to mouth and have a good nibble - ever tried that Jem ?

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long time since i did that

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Of course, they bite them off!, never thought of that Patsy, thank you indeed.

@ Doctor.

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Me too

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One thing is certain, when a monkey cuts its nails, they celebrate the ocassion...

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One would think human toenails would have disappeared by now, we don't need them to hang onto branches anymore, but they just keep on growing and growing, they are a bloody nuisance when you have to cut them, especially the ones on the big toes, tough as steel, what are they good for now I ask you?

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Thats a good question. The nails in our fingers still serve a purpose, but as you well observed our toe nails do seem to serve no purrpose. Maybe overtime they will cease to exist.

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Exactly, the fingernails do come in handy, try opening a penknofe without them. Maybe toenails are still there for our sins Rodolfo.

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The toenails in the evolution of man are a mystery. A mystery of what man was and to what man has become. Sort of like the human tail bone. Does this tail bone suggests in a mysterious way that primitive man had a tail and that overtime, because of its none use this tail became obsolete ?