London Zoo Visitors Terrorized by Mobile Phone Stealing Squirrel Monkeys

[mandy]

A troop of mischievous monkeys at London Zoo have had to be re-trained after showing too much interest in mobile phones.

The ring tones and bright lights proved just too attractive to the squirrel monkeys in their new no-barrier enclosure.

Visitors who held out their phones to video or take photographs attracted attention from the monkeys who attempted to take the object...

full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=382180&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments

Photo of Squirrel Monkey stealing mobile: http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/04...30x450.jpg

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[maryrussel]

Can you steal it now?  ;D

[regic]

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Can you steal it now?  ;D
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Verizon's can you hear it now commercials used to drive me fucking crazy! 

[Kristijntje]

more monkey madness:

If you live in the small village of Nachu in Kenya, watch out, because a group of approximately 300 marauding monkeys is out to steal your food, sexually harass your women and attack and kill your livestock! In a truly amazing incidence of interspecies communication, a group of vervet monkeys, Cercopithecus aethiops, is using sexual harassment to intimidate women and children, who are responsible for growing maize, potatoes, beans and other crops for their farming community, causing them to lose their main food supply so they now are dependent upon famine relief to survive...

full article: http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/20...ys_fro.php