COLOMBO: A nationwide blackout in Sri Lanka over the weekend left millions without electricity, with officials blaming an unlikely culprit—a monkey. The outage, which struck around midday on Sunday, disrupted homes and businesses as temperatures soared. Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody stated that a monkey had come into contact with a grid transformer, triggering an imbalance […]
Lopburi, Thailand: A Thai town, overwhelmed by an ever-growing population of marauding wild monkeys, initiated an offensive against these simian raiders on Friday using monkey business and ripe tropical fruit. Numerous high-profile cases of monkey-human conflict lately convinced authorities in Lopburi, central Thailand, that reducing the number of monkeys was necessary. If everything goes as […]
California: A monkey has caused a massive amount of confusion at a California zoo after police rocked up to respond to a 911 emergency call, zookeepers, along with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office, now believe it was a cheeky monkey named Route that placed the call. Police dispatchers received a call that eventually […]
Monkeys in Bali have resorted to raiding villagers’ homes in search of food as they have been deprived of their stable source of food i.e. tourists. Residents of Sangeh village have said that the macaques have been venturing out of the sanctuary about 500 meters away to loom around on their roofs waiting for the […]
Dubai’s only in-door rainforest, The Green Planet announces the birth of its adorable Cotton-top Tamarin twins The endangered species who can usually be found in the northwest of Colombia will join their Cotton-top Tamarin parents in calling The Green Planet home It’s estimated that only 5 percent of Cotton-top Tamarins’ original geographic range remains in […]
