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There 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
by perl4ever 5y ago
There 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...