Amazing monkey washing up
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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.
Louis with the monkeys
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Nice one Louis! Makes me smile xxx Glad to see you must have learnt to wash up well yourself
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Louis is YUMMO.
Louis has always been a total MONKEY!
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