Monkey's Coconut Business - Thailand

March 1995
A remarkable feature about the world's strangest university.

Training lasts for 3 to 6 months and there are 30-40 graduates a year. Hundreds find work afterwards in local plantations. And they're all monkeys! Their batty paternal trainer teaches them to scamper up coconut palms and deftly twist off the nuts. Their harvest can be as much as 500 nuts a day. They also perform for the tourists - a much more lucrative trade in Thailand. A captivating film about a mutually beneficial relationship between man and beast.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Thailand
• Monkeys
• Coconuts
• Business
• news
• documentary
• current affairs
• journeyman
• journeyman pictures

[dirtypleasures]

Fuckers.

[francophile59]

not really. At least there is some real affection between the trainer and the monkey.

In India the monkeys raid the orchards and fields in large numbers, sometimes driving the farmer out of business. Otherwise they are scrounging around in garbage cans for food or stealing from people's homes and people are now forced to grill and net them homes to keep the monkeys out. They have become a real nuisance. Fruit is picked raw and poisoned with calcium carbide which ripens it artificially for sale.

[labanane1234]

Sad.

[labanane1234]

Sad.