A painter, a psychologist, and a policeman all walk into a carnival. They ask the cotton-candy man where they should go for a good laugh. He looks to the ring toss and then the fun house and shakes his head. Finally, he points to the caricaturist creating a portrait showing a woman with abnormally gigantic front teeth, chomping on a carrot.
Caricatures are drawings that make someone look funny or foolish by exaggerating their appearance or character. The word caricature comes from the Italian word caricare, which means "to load," but it can also indicate exaggeration. These visual jokes on a page became popular in the 16th and 17th centuries, but examples of caricatures can be found as far back as ancient Egyptian art.
Today, the uncanny portraits appear on magazine covers and postage stamps. They turn up on oceanfront boardwalks and in art galleries. Caricatures incite a giggle or a blush, but the funny faces have a rich history. And they're being used in cool-and unexpected-new ways.
A FACE ONLY AN ARTIST COULD LOVE
Painter, inventor, and scientist Leonardo da Vinci loved to study the human form. He especially treasured the most curious-looking people he 5 saw on the streets of Italian cities in the 15th and 16th centuries. If he saw an interesting face, whether young and beardless or hairy and old, he might follow the person around all day long, memorizing their features. With the images tucked inside his brain, he would return home to turn what he'd seen into “monstrous faces" the phrase he used to describe his collection of caricatures.
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Who's Your Cousin?
The great apes are among the most popular animals in most zoos. Their actions, facial expressions, and family life remind us so much of ourselves. Have you ever wondered, though, how we might look to them?
Is it possible to die of boredom?
To figure out if we can die of boredom, we first have to understand what boredom is. For help, we called James Danckert, a psychologist who studies boredom at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
THE PROBLEM WITH PALM OIL
Palm oil is all around you. It’s in sugary snacks like cookies and candy bars. It’s in lipstick and shampoo and pet food.
SERGE WICH
Serge Wich’s favorite days at work are spent out in the forest, studying orangutans in Sumatra and Borneo or chimpanzees in Tanzania.
ELODIE FREYMANN
When you’re feeling sick, it probably doesn’t occur to you to try eating tree bark.
Guardians of the Forest
EARLY, MAKESHIFT WILDLIFE DRONES HELPED TO DETECT AND PROTECT ORANGUTANS.
APE ANTICS
The Whirling World of primate play
Dr. Ape Will See You Now
HUMANS AREN’T THE ONLY PRIMATES THAT USE MEDICATION.
THE LEFT OVERS
A lot has happened for modern humans to get to this point. We lost most of our hair, learned how to make tools, established civilizations, sent a person to the Moon, and invented artificial intelligence. Whew! With all of these changes, our bodies have changed, too. It’s only taken us about six million years.
SO, WHAT IS A PRIMATE?
What do you have in common with the aye-aye, sifaka, siamang, and potto? If you said your collarbone, you re probably a primatologist—a person who studies primates. If you’re not, read on.
