Amazing monkey washing up

Ziggy | 20 Aug, 2014 11:32AM | Leave a comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ8fH140Jgw This Amazing Stuff exclusive comes courtesy of our man in Paris, Louis Dumas. A couple of years ago, Louis spent several months reintroducing monkeys to the wild at a sanctuary in El Chapar, Bolivia. It was then that he took this video of monkey, Pete, doing the washing up:

“Pete had been observing me washing the pots for a few days before he took over and began completely and perfectly imitating me!

The monkey on his back is a baby female called Pea. She is not his daughter. Pete had an unfortunate overbite which made him a particularly ugly monkey; he had very little success with the ladies and therefore looked after babies a lot.”

Pete might look quite amazingly civilised for a monkey (note how he even rinses the brush before continuing to wash), but working with monkeys isn’t all Fairy Liquid — shortly after arriving at the sanctuary, Louis was informed that his predecessor had a finger bitten off.

Still, Louis himself came back intact. “Those months spent with the monkeys were probably the most magical time of my life,” he said.

-amazingstuff.co.uk