Monkey!

Koh Phangan has a single major export, no not drunk tourists following the Full Moon Party, I’m talking about coconuts. They have a really clever way of getting the coconuts down from the huge trees, what they do is train a monkey to do it!

This little fellow (ok he wasn’t so little and he had some wicked teeth on him) turned up in my front garden yesterday, his owner was making him climb the trees next to my house and pick the coconuts. It’s quite cool to watch, first they bite through the stem, then give it a quick twist, off it comes and they throw it down to their handler.

This one was pissed off though and although he looks quite cute in the picture he was snarling away at his owner something fierce.

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