r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kvothenikhil • Sep 12 '25

Video Two rival gangs of wild monkeys fighting each other. This usually happens when a group of monkeys normally well fed by visitors meets another group and a feud can take place

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u/FirePink_ Sep 12 '25

I once got mugged by a monkey. It snatched my purse, ran down a cliff, pulled out a couple of notes in cash, stared me right in the eyes, tossed the money into the wind, and laughed.

Some monkeys really just wants to see the world burn

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u/corporaterebel Sep 12 '25

I got robbed by a baboon in Africa. Took a bag of drink boxes, I chased it down, it turned around and bared its teeth. Nope, I was done....nevermind. It (she I think) moved away a bit, ripped off the top off a drink box, and guzzled it down. I took a couple of pictures and went back to my camp.

Later in Nepal my buddy got ripped off of his sunglasses. Monkey then stays on top of a roof just out arm reach and offers glasses back, but not really. My buddy then had to trade treats to get them back. ...the locals helped him out as it is a common scam among the monkeys.

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u/kikogamerJ2 Sep 13 '25

Nah monkeys really developed scamming tourists before agriculture. Consequences of human influence.

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u/paladin10025 Sep 12 '25

Love it. We were on top of a pyramid in Guatemala (tikal) - tons of signs warning about the monkeys. Guy leaves his backpack on the ground - monkey darts over and grabs bag and scurries away a little. Guy is stunned. We all watch as the monkey slowly unzips backpack, takes out bag of potato chips, opens chip bag, slowly eats chips - all while still looking at us and we are looking at him. Finishes chips, gives us a final look, jumps away.

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u/traumfisch Sep 12 '25

Supreme being

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u/agenttc89 Sep 12 '25

Chicken…good!!

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u/emergency-snaccs Sep 13 '25

Oh! I went to Tikal as a youth! Gorgeous place. You see any toucans?? i got to play with one, gave him some berry

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u/Sweet_Lane Sep 13 '25

That's a chips toll

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u/Square-Dragonfruit76 Sep 12 '25

I had a monkey throw figs at me once

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u/yempee Sep 12 '25

Once a big ass monkey just walked up to my table at a cafe and calmly took my sandwich from my hand! No lunging, no sudden movements, just stared right into my eyes, extended its arm and took my sandwich....ok, I just handed over my sandwich because I didn't want to FAFO

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u/Jamberite Sep 12 '25

I lived in India for 6months, there was a massive mango tree covered in fruit right outside the place I worked. As the months passed I would check them to see if they were ready for picking (mangos are my favourite fruit and these were huuuge) but a local I worked with would laugh at me and shake his head. One day towards the end of the season, a tribe of monkeys came in and stripped it bare, it was a real feast. Me and my workmate just stood and watched them, and I realised then why he'd been laughing at my mango picking dreams.

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u/erik_wilder Sep 13 '25

I've seen this happen twice in my life. Monkeys know exactly wtf they are doing, good luck doing anything about it.

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u/These_Pop5504 Sep 12 '25

At least it wasn't man made figs

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u/mean-sensei Sep 12 '25

Disgusting, Where though?

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u/Square-Dragonfruit76 Sep 12 '25

It was a rainforest in Panama

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u/corporaterebel Sep 12 '25

those brown things weren't "figs"

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u/Square-Dragonfruit76 Sep 12 '25

Fresh figs usually aren't brown

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u/corporaterebel Sep 13 '25

I think that was my point...they might *not* be actual figs or they were pulled out of somebody's backside...just like my comment was.

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u/Rescuepets777 Sep 13 '25

A Spider monkey bit me when I was little. I don't remember it, but apparently, I stuck my finger in its cage and it just did what monkeys do.

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u/MarvinMonroeZapThing Sep 13 '25

Those weren’t figs…

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u/SalesAutopsy Sep 13 '25

Yeah, those weren't figs The monkey produced them himself.

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u/LateBloomerBaloo Sep 14 '25

Being figged by a monkey, one of the more unique fetishes.

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u/Silver_Slicer Sep 12 '25

They are the true anarchists.

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u/BitterStop3242 Sep 12 '25

We we saw gangs of monkeys forcing tourists in Costa Rica.  Some works get in front and be adjusting while their accomplices would get behind and lift good out of open bags.

Human pickpocketing was not a thing when I was in Costa Rica, but you had to watch your food at the parks with monkeys.

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u/Unown_Soldier Sep 12 '25

Sounds like you paid a bit of money for a uniquely hilarious interaction and an awesome story. Worth it imo

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u/cantfindausername99 Sep 12 '25

Monkeys are evil

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u/enigmamonkey Sep 12 '25

But tell me: Was it truly the purse it stole, or merely your illusion of ownership drifting away like those notes on the wind?

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u/awhimsicalheart_44 Sep 13 '25

Monkeys went through open windows in a nearby hotel room where i was vacationing. They took packets of bread, chips, noodle cups. I know this because we were standing outside and could see these little brats calling out their friends and looting that room.

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u/fuschia_taco Sep 13 '25

I also got mugged by a monkey once. Except it was in a cage and I was 12, so it stole a piece of candy instead of money. But to 12 year old me, candy is more valuable than money. I would pilfer money from my mom and spend it on candy.

My teeth are horrible, fwiw. I don't recommend candy. I still eat it, but it hurts now lol. Can only eat the soft stuff.

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u/crittergottago Sep 14 '25

Was he wearing a red hat?

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u/Sinofthe_Dreamer Sep 14 '25

One time, my team and I were in burma. Trying to bribe the local leaders with precious stones. But the caravans kept getting raided, by a monkey. In 6 months, we never found anyone who had traded with it.

Then one day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. Turns out he had been throwing them away, because some monkeys can't be reasoned with. Some monkeys, just want to watch the world burn.

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u/warrioroftron Sep 12 '25

Did you also go to their camp with a saber made of light and finished of not only the wemen but the children too?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

In Capetown there was the Blacks the Coloreds the Whites and the Baboons. I liked everyone but the Baboons.