Posted on 01/25/2022 8:43:58 AM PST by BenLurkin
I worked with various types of primates as a zookeeper.
Some of the macaques were aggressive. But other monkeys were quite friendly.
There was one large male chimpanzee that no one trusted. We once had to enter his area, and we had two men with 30-30s aimed at the tranquilized chimp in case he woke up.
The monkeys at the Taj had the run of the place. It is India, after all, with a monkey god in the Hindu pantheon. The one time I did look directly at one for more than a couple seconds the reaction was “What you lookin’ at! You lookin’ at me? You want a piece of me?”. I don’t doubt at all your experience with primates in a zoo. Merely saying that I’ve seen temple (in this case a tomb) monkeys in India behave like a biker gang on meth. And that when aroused they can do some serious harm.
I’ve had to use both my 40 db ear plugs + muffs just to shop Kroger’s Concert loud musice, mask screaming over it instead of turning it off. Now they have the heater blower drowning that out. These Hearing aids are for those who worked on Flight Decks level noise. I use to hear quite well. Till that first Meniere’s attack. 2nd one made it woirse, another I’ll be deaf. And sure can’t afford Cochlear implants. Out of Pocket expemse.
Where were those monkeys headed, hmmmm...?
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