Wow, I have to think about this one morally. How do you all feel about this?
Here are three amazing photos of Thailand's 'working monkeys'.The monkeys ? pig-tailed macaques ? can quickly scamper up the trunk of a coconut palm, select the ripe ones and with a twist and pull, the fruit drops to the ground.
"One monkey can pick up about 300 coconuts a day," said Somboon Cheumuang, the monkey?s owner, who lives in Chumphon province in southern Thailand. "The monkey works 10 times quicker than a man," he adds.
In what may look like slave labour, about 1,200 trained monkeys are working as coconut pickers, and all for a couple of bananas a day. - dailymail
2 comments:
Well, it appears the monkeys aren't really unhappy doing their job and then - what's the difference to us all working "in the system"?
Should the owners pay health insurance, so the monkeys can benefit from a dubious medical system that kills more people than accidents and wars together?
Isn't this how Planet of The Apes started?
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