Seuss wrote and drew a lot of really weird stuff), the appearance of the Lorax (the character) combined with the purposeful ecological message of “The Lorax” (the book) do paint an interesting picture. While all of this is informed conjecture (after all, Dr. The researchers also noted the Lorax’s beloved Truffula trees not only resemble the whistling thorn acacia, a type of tree found on the African Savannah, but that particular tree actually provides food for the patas monkey. “Even the voice of the Lorax (a ‘sawdusty sneeze’) resembles the ‘whoo-wherr’ vocalization of patas monkeys the ‘whoo’ is a loud, wheezing expiration of air.” “t is probable that Geisel encountered at the Mount Kenya Safari Club,” the study says. Through a series of deeply confusing-sounding facial matching tests (” t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding,” which “down-projects multidimensional information into two dimensions for visualization”), Dominy and his team came up with an answer: The patas monkey.Īccording to the study, the Lorax and the patas monkey share several traits, from their stout primate stature to their bushy faces and even their voices.
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