Atchy Loc: Essex England

I found this macaque monkey on my balcony in Thailand yesterday. I was informed it was a Macaque. Must be Scottish

Scottish monkey ?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Got it! It took some thought, though.



Another one: What is macadam?
The first Scottish man.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

I had a friend who was old Scotsman - never trimmed his wild eyebrows or ear hair. The monkey does kind of remind me of him.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Clever story, cool photo :)

Sendai5355 Loc: On the banks of the Pedernales River, Texas

Nice shot but watch your eyeglasses.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

My "Macaque Rule" is: "Monkeys are cute as long as they are more than ten feet away". We had one of these nasty little buggers in Borneo creep up under our table while we were having lunch - without us knowing it. He then lept up on the table, waving his arms, baring his teeth, and hissing like crazy. We of course, jumped back in total shock, at which time he scooped up a bag of oranges and ran off. We stayed in these little cabins in a national park - the windows of which were nailed shut to keep them out - and no, they weren't air conditioned! In spite of this my brother and his wife had a bottle of ibuprofen go missing, and there were little footprints on their bed. We could not figure out how it got in. The empty bottle we found outside the next morning. Apparently some monkeys had a headache.... Nasty little bastards. I had a friend who worked for a while in India - he said they had two buildings at the site, and workers often had to walk between the two buildings. They kept old 4-foot fluorescent light tubes inside the doors, and when you walked outside to go to the other building you took one to wave at any monkeys that came near you to scare them off - anything smaller and less bright wouldn't work. You left it inside the door at your destination for another worker to use on their way back to the first building.

Sendai5355 Loc: On the banks of the Pedernales River, Texas

I learned the hard way about getting to close but luckily I was able to retrieve my glasses. A few years ago, I visited a temple in Thailand where they would place a fake crocodile on top of the cars to keep the monkeys from jumping on the cars. Apparently the monkeys never figured out that the crocodile was fake.

Atchy Loc: Essex England

In Kenya some years ago a woman on our safari party made the mistake of leaving her handbag unattended. A monkey quickly seized it and scampered up the nearest tree with it where he proceeded to rifle through it throwing everything he wasn't interested in to the ground. Out came the make up, tissues, tampons and the rest of the rubbish women carry in their handbags. Having found nothing of interest he then threw down the bag and and let out a shriek of disappointment. Beware monkeys.

sailorsmom Loc: Souderton, PA

Cute shot, Atchy!

topcat Loc: Alameda, CA

Nice capture.

Evie Loc: Sacramento

how cool is that