Impressed? You should be! By now you know that I can’t even begin to make this machine, even with all technology today or in next thousand years. So I’ll confess right now that I can’t make it, even if I wanted to. So it would be no way that it could just happen by accident? And I don’t feel bad that I can’t build it because neither can anyone else. Not even a team of scientists, engineers, and inventors.

Now let me say that I am not talking about science-fiction, I am talking about something that is very real. And it’s been around for thousands of years, too. It’s not really a machine, though because no machine will ever be able to be so complex and do so many things by itself. A machine, by comparison, is a crude and stupid device. But this is real. It’s called a “cell”. Your body is made up of literally billions of them, each functioning on it’s own without any instruction from you. They all work together with every other cell in body to maintain and support life. They never go to class but you will have to if you want to begin to understand what little we actually know about them.

Maybe you were not aware that a cell was so much more wonderful than any machine made by man could ever be. And more complicated, too. More than any machine that could be built.

Which brings me to question...Who did?

The constant ambient air temperature is physical mechanism which, in random fashion, creates sound waves that resonate within air column leading to eardrum. It follows then, that these incoherent sound waves create a "resonant pressure" on eardrum, similar to what it is like when you hold a seashell to your ear and sound waves bounce around. The resonant pressure fluctuates and increases random firing of nerve cells in auditory system. Transmitted from auditory system to brain, these random firings result in noise that masks or obscures a signal that contains speech or other useful information.

The smaller shape of monkey’s ears means that monkey is faced with a lot more "seashell-type roar" and noise than humans take in. "So that’s what average monkey is faced with—a lot more white noise is created in little ear that blocks outer ranges of sound. This also explains historic bank of data that indicates that monkeys hear a smaller range of sounds than humans do.

So, in essence, my little Ziggy’s ears get a lot of ambient noise and those dumb looks in a chaotic setting can be written off to her diminished hearing, or, let’s say her not hearing at a comfortable level. ###

Andrea Campbell is author of Bringing Up Ziggy: What Raising A Helping Hands Monkey Taught Me About Love, Commitment, and Sacrifice. She frequently writes about monkeys, forensic science, criminal justice, writing and parties….