Serious monkey business at Malaysian school for macaques


A pig-tailed macaque picking trainer Wan Ibrahim Wan Mat's hair in the village of Melor in the northern state of Kelantan, Malaysia, on Feb 8, 2018. PHOTO: AFP.

PADANG HALBAN: A pig-tailed macaque yanked at a coconut on a piece of string until it fell to the floor, a small victory for the simian student at a Malaysian school that trains monkeys to harvest fruit for farmers.

Thousands of monkeys have been taught the trade over the past four decades by a man known as Grandfather Wan in a small village in the north of the country.

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