Ads for monkeys: sign of the end times?

This is not an "Onion story". No, really! Turns out Laurie Santos gave a TED talk in 2010 on “monkeynomics” — the realization that monkeys understood an abstract idea like currency. Unfortunately, 2 advertising executives happened to be in the audience, New Scientist reports today. The result: a monkey ad campaign. (...). Know more at http://goo.gl/nA6ZH.