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I understand but aren't we to be blame for this? We took their home, we took their shelter and what can they do? And they don't have enough wisdom to know who t
by cute_boi 5y ago
I understand but aren't we to be blame for this? We took their home, we took their shelter and what can they do? And they don't have enough wisdom to know who they should harm and who they shouldn't.
And many of monkey i know here are too friendly but yea after they starts to live with humans they learn to hoodwink people because many thieves are known to use monkey to snatch valuables from tourist by providing bananas as incentives to them.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago> We took their home We are an animal and part of nature too. > And they don't have enough wisdom to know who they should harm and who they shouldn't. They seem pretty smart about it tbh. They know what they can get away with and go no further than that.
- perl4ever 5y agoThere have been articles, probably also threads on HN, about monkeys enslaved and used to harvest crops or something. I don't remember all the details, but they pull out their teeth so they can't bite, and coerce them into working much faster than humans could.
- xaedes 5y agoSounds pretty gruesome. However, the concept of it seems to be ancient. The great Indian epic of Ramayana has a part that tells how they build Adam's / Rama's bridge to Sri Lanka with the "help" of monkeys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Monkeys_and_Bears_Build_a_Bridge_to_Lanka.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Monkeys_and_Bears_Bui...