From a capuchin biting a woman’s face at a bed-and-breakfast to street performance
monkeys turning on their trainer, this is what happens when monkeys attack.
Today's video was done in collaboration with Down the Rabbithole.
Stay tuned till the end of this video to find out more!
Number 10 Minah A 27-year-old tourist named Binula Wickramarachchi
was walking through the national park of Sumatra Orangutan Observation Centre when he encountered
an orangutan.
The ape allegedly swung down from the trees as Binula and his tour group were trekking
through the jungle.
Binula was bitten on the knee and suffered minor injuries.
Shortly afterwards, he was rushed to a hospital nearby where he received treatment.
It was later discovered that the animal that had attacked him was a 38-year-old orangutan
named Minah who had escaped after being kept as a pet.
Number 9 Parvin Hajihossini Parvin Hajihossini and her boyfriend were
staying at a bed and breakfast in the Cattskill Mountains, upstate New York, in September
2010.
The facility had a resident capuchin monkey named Benjamin that was kept in a cage.
Parvin went over to his cage to take a photo, but before she could understand what was happening,
the monkey escaped and attacked her.
Benjamin bit Parvin by the face, leaving her with an open wound that required multiple
stitches.
After the woman was mauled, local health officials ordered the monkey destroyed and checked for
rabies.
However, its owner, painter Allen Hirsch, couldn’t turn over his pet.
The monkey went missing after the incident.
Number 8 Dee Darwell A British woman was on a trip to conquer her
fear of primates.
She joined a tour run by the Siam Sea Canoe tourist agency to the Monkey Island, near
Phi Phi Don, Thailand.
56-year-old Dee Darwell was walking alone when she was attacked by a pack of macaques.
Before the attack, Darwell was heading towards a rock in the shade where she was planning
to sit and cool down.
She laid down her towel and looked around to make sure there were no monkeys.
Shortly after she sat down, a monkey walked up to her and she immediately stood up and
began moving away.
The primate grabbed her wrist and pounced on her arm.
Blood began spurting everywhere as Darwell lost consciousness.
The woman was rescued by boatmen who managed to scare the monkeys away and was rushed to
the Bangkok Phuket Hospital.
Darwell later said she didn’t remember how she was saved and that she thought she was
going to die.
The woman also said that she would have never gotten off the boat if she knew that there
was any danger.
Tour leader Yongyut Buasod reported that some people were teasing the monkeys that day.
Number 7 Yangon Zoo An employee at the Yangon Zoo in Myanmar had
to temporarily move three monkeys from their enclosure in order to clean it up.
The monkeys were taken to another cage that was only secured with a piece of wire.
One zoogoer allegedly thought it would be funny to remove the wire and the animals escaped.
The three monkeys caused panic during the next hours, attacking two women.
One of them was bitten while trying to protect her grandchildren and pregnant daughter-in-law.
The other woman was bitten when she tried to pet one of the monkeys, thinking it was
tame.
The monkeys were eventually caught and taken back into their enclosures.
Zoo officials publicly apologized and staff offered to pay for medical assistance for
both victims.
Zoo administrator Tun Aung Win confirmed that all cages that were only secured with wire
would be decommissioned until proper safety measures would be put in palce.
Number 6 Wild Monkeys in Supa Village Wild monkeys living near Supa Village in the
Indian state of Gujarat left locals frightened to leave their homes.
At least 19 persons were viciously attacked by monkeys in May 2018, and some of the unexpected
encounters were recorded by CCTV cameras.
One video showed a biker being thrown off his motorcycle by a monkey that seems to come
out of nowhere and jump at him.
A milkman was attacked seven times by the same monkey and claimed to have sustained
minor injuries after being knocked to the ground by the animal.
The local forest department launched an investigation after numerous complaints were made by residents,
as the incidents became more frequent.
Locals even tried feeding the animals in hope they would stop the attacks.
However, one of the residents said he thought the monkeys attacked people for fun as they
seemed to enjoy kicking them to the ground.
Number 5 Spanky A woman named Tina Ballard decided to take
her spider monkey Spanky along while shopping at the Home Depot in Florida.
Ballard left the animal in her truck on a leash and went inside the store.
However, Spanky shortly managed to climb out of the truck and approached employee Marilyn
Howard, who was standing outside the store.
Howard reported that, at first, the monkey seemed friendly, as it reached up and grabbed
her hand.
In order to try and keep the primate from running away or entering the store, Howard
grabbed the leash.
In no time, the monkey climbed on to her back and bit her twice.
Despite being attacked, Howard kept holding the leash.
As the store’s sliding doors opened, Spanky got scared and attacked the woman again, biting
her on the arm and hand and scratching at her face.
Howard initially refused medical attention and was left with deep scars on her face and
hand.
After the incident, Spanky was returned to her owner.
It turned out the primate was popular on the Internet, as Ballard created its own YouTube
channel which grew to almost 9,500 followers.
Number 4 JayJay the Macaque A family’s pet Macaque of nine years attacked
his owner and managed to escape its home in Okeechobee, Florida.
Jimmy Schwall and his wife, Mona, had had the monkey since it was only three weeks old.
They used to keep it in a large enclosure in their yard and dress it up in costumes
and clothes for Halloween.
The monkey was even allowed to play with the children in the pool.
However, in August 2012, the monkey allegedly ‘flipped out’ and escaped.
Jimmy Schwall tried to catch JayJay with a net, but the monkey managed to set itself
free by clamping down on Schwall’s buttock and tearing his hand apart.
A family friend grabbed a fun and Schwall told him to sheet the monkey and the animal
died almost instantly.
Schwall suffered seven injured tendons and one injured nerve.
He also had to undergo two three-hour surgeries and multiple hours of rehabilitation exercises
in order to be able to use his hand again.
The family was heartbroken when the monkey died and decided to incinerate it and keep
its ashes in an urn.
Schwall also kept other animals at his five-acre ranch, including a Marmoset monkey, miniature
horses, chickens and dogs.
He maintained he would still keep the remaining animals after the incident.
Number 3 Baby Mauled by Baboon over Doll A one-year-old baby and her 12-year-old brother
were playing outside their home in Victorian Falls, Zimbabwe, in May 2018.
Their mother, Jean Gama, was making breakfast inside when she heard a piercing scream coming
from her children.
She ran outside and saw her baby daughter being bitten on the head by a baboon.
The woman reportedly hit the primate with a stone and that’s when it let go of the
baby.
However, the animal had already sunken its teeth deep into the girl’s skull.
The child was heavily bleeding and unconscious when her mother rushed her to the hospital
over the border, in Zambia.
Doctors said the child’s recovery would take time, but the wounds were not fatal.
It appeared that the attack happened when the baboon saw that the girl was playing with
a doll and wanted to steal it.
Number 2 Infant’s popsicle Eaten by Monkey A mother was changing her 8-month-old’s
child diaper at a wildlife park in Guiyang, China, when a monkey attacked the baby, ripping
off one of his popsicles.
At first, the monkey seemed uninterested in the popsicles, dropping it on the ground.
A man tried to recover it, but then the monkey reportedly snatched the baby’s popsicle
from his hand and proceeded to eat it, as the mother was watching in horror.
Although the infant was left disfigured, he was taken to the hospital and doctors reported
that the injuries he had suffered were not life threatening.
The incident happened in September 2013.
Reports from that year mentioned hundreds of incidents involving the monkeys that roam
free at the wildlife park in Guiyang.
Number 1 Trainer Attacked by Monkeys in China A monkey trainer was doing a street performance
in Sizhou, China, when his three monkeys turned on him.
The man was trying to get one of the monkeys to ride on a child’s bicycle, but when the
animal refused to do so, the trainer beat it with a stick.
Shortly after, the other two animals came to the defense of the third monkey.
They began pulling the man’s ear and biting his head, until the trainer dropped his cane.
One monkey then grabbed the stick and hit the trainer on the head with it until it broke.
The trainer tried to explain to the public that the monkeys were originally wild and
may have developed a feeling of hatred towards him for training them.
The incident came to the attention of local police, who decided to investigate the case
as the trainer appeared to violate laws on animal welfare.