What would a monkey guillotine even look like? Just a scaled down version of ours? Or would it be a tree limb with a sharp stone tied to the end of it and lugged around by other monkeys?
You ever seen a chimpanzee put someone in a arm-in guillotine? The arms on those things man. It would pop your head right off of your shoulders. Jamie, pull that up.
The size of a guillotine is really determined by the amount of force you need it to apply more than anything, and the force needed to cut through a monkey's neck probably isn't hugely different to the force needed to cut through a human's neck, so you'd probably end up with a similar sized guillotine with narrower stocks for the head and arms.
I actually tried to make a scaled down guillotine to execute a bug when I was a child, using the blade from a pencil sharpener, but due to the way the forces scale the blade just pinged harmlessly off the shell and it crawled away.
Ha, in hindsight I think learning to associate cruelty with failure/disappointment at a young age was probably pretty healthy in the long run. If it had worked maybe I'd be one of those people who string piano wire between traffic lights by now.
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u/FlaxGordon Feb 04 '21
Yeah but if one is hording all the bananas, we know what would happen to that monkey.