Monkey Culture: Japanese snow monkeys washing potatoes

[TheAMDkid]

do you have the full clip of this? been looking for it for years

[phillyboyatn]

look at those monkeys, and their sweet sweet potatoes

[0oNiels0o]

suck macaque.

[swedishseal01]

david he was cute

[Woutorus]

David Attenborough is my hero. And Japanese macaque's are still my favorite motherfuckin' monkeys. I'd be depressive if there were no monkeys in this world. I would be an emo

[Nerdorkables]

Oh my God... I can't believe it is Attenborough! He looks sooo young!

[Mafuyu629]

日本人は猿なんて食べない。

犬も食べない。

猫も食べない。

[badmuthahubbard]

They stole his comb too.

At 0:37 that doesn't look like a sweet potato.

[itak365]

I love the fat one at 1:17 that runs off with two.

[TheTrueNinja12]

Brilliant! It'd be amazing to see such changes over the decades.

[TofuDeliverer]

Overtime monkeys use their creaticity to change their ways? Sounds like humans, who knows in a 100 years what the monkeys will come up with.

[bin1127]

they eat rice?  now i know what to use to lure monkeys.

[2sick2care]

@tokester3000 Who?

[TNTBlowinUp]

DAMN! That monkey snatched that shit! lol

Monkey: Gimme that potato BIATCH!

Narrator: Sweet potatoes...sweet potatoes...like that!" *gets scared, but smiles anyway* lol

[Mickey44421]

@soopaflychic,

I see that you are a Korean woman living in Australia. You have posted over 2,200 abusive comments about Japan and the Japanese people on the internet. We researched what some Koreans, like you, are posting vicious comments about the Japanese while pretending to be a different person and belonging to a different race: sometimes Chinese, American or even Japanese. Stop your mind-control games, put on for foreign people in the world, and your insincere comments.

[tehinfidel]

@Mickey44421 Oh, I didn't know s/he was a bizarre, racist troll. Anyway, his/her account is now banned on YouTube (not my doing, but I'm not sad.)

[234Spotman]

It's like watching evolution... Perhaps someday we will know how long it takes to go from smart monkey, to smart human.

[fwola]

i hope in millions of years the monkeys sart to evolve into humans or sort of like them hopefully humans are still alive then that would be awsome.

[mblakes1994]

I LOVE MONKEYS!!!!!!

[CarlChipSanders]

@soopaflychic

those fuckers look tasty....

[ethicomm]

@soopaflychic I don't think you have any worries about that happening. The Japanese are prone to doing that. I understand in Korea and China and eat dog. In China there are those that eat live monkey brains, perhaps the cruelest of dining experiences. There are other dining habits in China that are probably best not mentioned.

[ethicomm]

@ethicomm I meant that the Japanese are NOT prone to doing that.

[PushyLittleKid]

Wow I wish they could turn up his microphone or something, I can barely hear him over the waves.

[tehinfidel]

@soopaflychic I've been here for 7 years, and have never seen or even heard of anyone eating monkey.

Whale meat, on the other hand... that still makes me sad. But it's not too common.

[sandinovive1000]

@tehinfidel I'm originally from Nicaragua, during the war years 1985 through 1989 i was serving my military service for the sandino-communist army; during that time when we were up in the mountains sometimes food was scarce so ended up shooting at these small primates that lived way up on the tree tops. Not the best tasting meat, but it kept us alive for a good 2 years.

[tehinfidel]

@sandinovive1000 Yeah, I was specifically responding to his question about Japan. Eating them in your situation sounds totally justifiable in my opinion though, as sad as it would be.

There seem to be 3 species that have a range in Nicaragua: capuchins, spider monkeys, and howler monkeys. Hope it wasn't the capuchins; they are incredibly smart. :-(

[TweedleDumm1]

@tehinfidel yea they still hunt down whales and call it research and those dumbass useless bastards sea shephards and green peace need to take it a step further

there is only one jap factory whaling ship which needs to be nurtrilized.

[Cubelarooso]

Scientists cancel Science: Interrupted by Japanese Macaque!

[polos505]

I am doing a project about learning. These monkeys illustrated the natural change in behavior due to learning. They were not born known how to wash sweet potatoes, yet ,they "learn" how by experience.

[JonathanShum]

hahahah monkey!

[Robstailey]

all nature documentaries should have crouching englishmen

[2sick2care]

@Robstailey Or a shrieking galloping tackling fruit loop of an Aussie=[ Luckily for the poor animals, a stingray took the twit out.

And yer...I'm Aussie.

[trukin]

Evolution is a LIE! So is the cake!!!!

[2sick2care]

@trukin Cake is a lie?  I have no reason to live:[

[Mudfooted]

Great video! Thanks for sharing. I just bought all David Attenboroughs dvds of the life series+life+blue planet+planet earth+life :) It is the best!

[crazykid503]

odd, you'd think monkeys wouldn'tbe that smart, but they ARE!!! :D

[MsHobbes22]

Thank you so much for sharing your video's. they brought a huge smile to my face. Fantastic!

[billyclub0]

I saw this in ANTH 1101 the other day!

[selvatico3]

fantastic

[organdva]

tehinfidel, you are my favorite duck! :)

[encliticcopula]

That Imo is one smart monkey!

[tattooskin72]

Wow, he looks totally different LOL.

I'd say this is beyond simple culture. It's nothing different from what we do... It's amazing to me :)

[Subfightr]

:) thanks