History Main / CuriousAsAMonkey

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* [[CaptainObvious Monkeys]]. Never, ever leave one unattended in your house.
* One of the defining behaviors in 'determining' autism in children is the tendency or recurrent desire to take things, mostly machines, apart, often to see how they work. (Autism, like everything else presently in the DSM, is over-diagnosed. Curiosity is not in and of itself a symptom of autism.)

* One of the defining behaviors in 'determining' autism in children is the tendency or recurrent desire to take things, mostly machines, apart, often to see how they work. (Autism, like everything else presently in the DSM, is over-diagnosed.)

* The protagonist of "The Caves and the Cockatrice" by [=~E. Nesbit~=]:

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* Skysong (Kitten), a young dragon, from Tamora Pierce's ''The Immortals'' series can be this. While on one hand Skysong stayed at a political discussion over exploring a capital city (apparently very intereted); Skysong has also been known to open locks to wee what is behind them, and was describes as "like a bear in your wardrobe, except a bear doesn't have magic to open locks" if curiosity is not satisfied.

* One of the defining behaviors in 'determining' [[AmbiguouslyAutistic autism]] in children is the tendency or recurrent desire to take things, mostly machines, apart, often to see how they work. (Autism, like everything else presently in the DSM, is over-diagnosed.)

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* In ''NipAndTuck'', [[http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00575.html Hortense's niece]]
* In ''ImpureBlood'', Mac, the WrenchWench [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue4PAGES/ib094.html acts like this around any new machinery.]]

The WrenchWench can show signs of this although she usually does less damage. (She may even improve it.)

->''Look at that! Oh, what's that? What is that? Hey, look at that thing. No, that other thing. Ohh, that thing has numbers on it!''

* In ''Please Don't Eat the Daisies'' by Joan Kerr, this is the defining trait of one of the children a toddler who could "take apart the toaster with a wooden spoon and a drying pan".

-->-- '''The Curiosity Core,''' {{Portal}}

->"Look at that! Oh, what's that? What is that? Hey, look at that thing. No, that other thing. Ohh, that thing has numbers on it!"
-->-- The Curiosity Core, {{Portal}}

* In {{Bleach}}, of all people, [[spoiler: Senbonzakura, Byakuya's Zanpakuto]] is revealed to be this, childishly pressing any button in sight. The difference between [[spoiler: Senbonzakura and Byakuya]] is noted, though it was pointed out that [[spoiler: Byakuya]] acts exactly the same! Just hides that side much better.

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->"The only cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
-->-- DorothyParker

A character, usually a child, who is ''always'' monkeying with things to see how they fit together, or work, or what they are made of. (Always in [[ChildrenAreInnocent total innocence.]]) Generally found with assorted parts of a now-out-of-commission machine scattered about his feet. Or attempting to find out what [[SchmuckBait Big Red Button]] does. TruthInTelevision for anyone who's seen the aftermath of bored six-year-old with any form of tool.

-->-- Dorothy Parker

* Calvin in several CalvinAndHobbes strips. He throws water on his dad to test dad's reflexes, drops an expensive compass out of a tree to study gravity and wets his pants while wearing winter clothes so that he can know how astronauts feel when they go in their suits.
** Calvin doesn't ''actually'' wet his pants... but [[http://www.marcellosendos.ch/comics/ch/1993/02/19930206.gif he was considering it]].

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* [[{{Yotsubato}} Yotsuba.]]