A good video IMO

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make sure your volume is on, the music adds to this video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8811551493740102634&q=monkey+deathwish :hehe:

 

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Thanks for passing that along

Not the best video quality (image distortion). But, the video and its "story" are note-worthy for sure. Goes to show that what is often viewed as pure instinct is a misconception. Those cats are young, but I don't think young enough to have made the normal instinctual attack a mute point, atleast not entirely. You'd think they would have gone all out to get him, particularly for dinner; but, that didn't happen, as they saw it as play (in those moments they weren't viewing him as just a "plain annoying little s***...enough is enough"). I especially loved the monkey showing guts in the middle, when he just sits on the ground as they hid behind trees waiting to pounce...and he knew it...almost saying "Come and get me :bah:". And even better (look again if you didn't pay attention) was the look of "Where are you guys going? We were having fun." at the end, as thy walked away. OK, with that, I may be assigning human attributes and thoughts to a monkey, most would say. But, if you watch that, its obvious that is exacly what he is thinking. They (this primate and his relatives) can be of the same intellect (as we normally define it under IQ and ability to adapt to unknown situations) as a 3 or 4 year old human (some rare primate examples have done much better than even this). This one may be a bit smarter than most of his relatives, IMHO. That look I mentioned in the end, atleast shows he outwitted two big cats :yell: While the film was highly edited, the film crew that got this were darn lucky. Many who film in nature (filming animals in the African wild for example) often see some of the most amazing behavior and subject matter. Nonetheless, this was a once-in-a-million chance encounter between these two species of animals, and they were lucky enough on top of those odds to be there with a camera