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Thailand's 'Working Monkeys' - Southern pig-tailed Macaque

Macaca nemestrina

Description:

These are Southern Pig-tailed Macaque The monkeys can quickly scamper up the trunk of a coconut palm, select the ripe cocnuts and with a twist and pull, the fruit drops to the ground.

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2 Comments

melissac
melissac 12 years ago

OMG! That's horrible for them to be chained like that. Makes me very sad.

ceherzog
ceherzog 12 years ago

wow! Very interesting.

Christiane
Spotted by
Christiane

Ko Samui#nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand

Spotted on Mar 21, 2009
Submitted on May 21, 2011

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