Watching Monkey World

Bujang listening carefully to the keeper about the marvels of garlic...

Bujang watching a capucin monkey smearing garlic all over himself...


Bujang trying to get into the act...

This was one of the rare times that Bujang sat to watch anything on TV. He was so fascinated by the monkeys that he came close to watch the whole garlic proceedings. It seemed that capucin monkeys love to have strong smells on themselves and so the keepers decided to give them garlic for its properties as antioxident and insect repellent - I guess. The little monkey on TV was once a captive and had spent all of its life in a cage and was not very adept at smearing garlic on itself. It got some in its eyes too and it kept blinking. The monkeys would eat a little and then once the garlic is wet , it would smear its fur with it.

I really like watching Monkey World on Animal Planet :)