More about monkeys

The monkeys fascinate me.

I have seen two types so far. There is a type of grey monkey that avoids people. I have only seen them a few times, and they keep their distance. There is another type of monkey that is brown and is not at all shy or frightened around people.
Trees and buildings and the cabels on a cable bridge across the river are all the same to them. They seem to be totally at home living around people, seeing buildings and people as just an extension of their natural environment. They are more common than squirrels in America, but they are more aggressive than squirrels, and smarter. They will steal from you.

I watched a man with a cart full of bread make a delivery to a hotel. There was a monkey hanging on a drain pipe on the side of a building. The monkey saw the bread man but the bread man did not see the monkey. As soon as the bread man walked through the hotel door the monkey was down the pipe, into the cart, getting bread and then taking it back to the roof, where all the bread man could do was yell at it while the monkey peeled back the cellophane and had breakfast.

I was sitting in a cafe with an open window eating breakfast. Suddenly a monkey hand came through the window and grabed the salt shaker. He was probably disappointed and didn't care about salt, but it was red and probably looked like fruit to him.

Hotels tell you not to leave food in the room if the windows are open because it attracts monkeys.

The brown monkeys are all over the place. The youngest ones I have seen are about the size of a squirrel with long legs. They stay close to their mothers. The adults get to be about the size of a medium sized dog. The big males will occasionally show their teeth and act threatening, but I think it is usully a bluff. People are still bigger than they are. The most fun ones to watch are the playful young ones that don't stay with their motheres any more, but play like kittens, making amazing 20 foot jumps from tree limb to roof to telephone pole as they chase each other and play.

I read in the newspaper about a town where a baby monkey got caught in an electric wire and was electricuted. All the local monkeys thought the humans were killing the baby and thousands of them attacked the people in the area.