The Owl or Night Monkey
by Kendall Clark
Today we were looking for a new code name for an internal project, and I realized that it’s also Monkey Monday and we owe the blogosphere a post about monkeys. Putting these two needs together, we started looking for an interesting monkey to talk about and, perhaps, to find a name to steal.
A night monkey (aka owl monkey) is the only nocturnal monkey, has freaky big eyes (more rods than cones), excellent night and spatial vision:
(Thanks to UW’s National Primate Research Center—damn, I wish these guys needed some SemWeb goodness!)
The genus name is aotus, which we decided makes an excellent SVN repo name.
