Fighting monkeys cause nationwide blackout in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has grappled with a struggling energy grid for years, and monkeys are making it worse. On Sunday at around 11:00 local time (12:30 AM EST), a nationwide blackout forced its 22 million residents to either turn to personal generators,
After Sri Lanka, why is Nepal considering selling its monkeys to China?
Nepali Congress lawmaker Ram Hari Khatiwada proposed selling monkeys to China to address growing agricultural destruction caused by the animals. Citing Sri Lanka’s example, he suggested it as a strategy to manage the simian menace in hilly areas.
‘Monkey’ menace: Sri Lanka faces nationwide blackout chaos, power cuts to follow
A monkey caused a major power outage in Sri Lanka, leading to scheduled 90-minute power cuts due to a breakdown at the Norochcholai coal power plant.
Monkey Accused of Cutting Off Entire Nation’s Power Supply
Power was being restored across Sri Lanka on Monday, after officials blamed a monkey for entering a power station near the capital Colombo and triggering a nationwide blackout a day earlier. “A monkey has come in contact with our grid transformer,
Nationwide power outage in Sri Lanka caused by rogue monkey in electrical grid
No more monkeys jumping on the power grid! A countrywide power outage that left many stuck without cool air during a sweltering hot day in Sri Lanka has been blamed on a rogue monkey who climbed into a power station south of the capital Colombo.
Monkey business in Sri Lanka triggers national-wide blackout
Sri Lanka plunged into a nationwide power crisis. The unexpected outage has sparked debates over infrastructure security and energy reliability in the island nation.
Monkeys break into power station and cause electricity outage for 22m people
At around 11:30am local time on Sunday, a rogue group of monkeys jumped into the Panadura Power Station in Sri Lanka, with ...
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Budget: Atiku warns Tinubu's govt against allowing snakes, monkeys to swallow $1.07bn for health
Atiku, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the last election, criticised past instances where public funds allegedly went missing under bizarre claims involving animals such ...
Alabama woman helped make ‘crushing’ videos of monkeys being tortured and killed
One video depicted "the torture of a juvenile monkey using a jar of ants and sodomy with an object, causing the monkey’s ...
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YouTubers blamed after monkeys attack at ancient temple
YouTubers are being blamed for ‘egging on’ monkeys after they begin to attack visits to an ancient temple attraction in ...
Monkeys attack tourists at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, egged on by YouTubers, officials say
At Angkor Wat and other temple ruins nearby, macaque monkeys fed by YouTubers creating videos are stealing visitors’ food and ...
Celebrating the Most Iconic Movie Monkeys and Apes
Ever since a giant gorilla scaled the Empire State Building with a beautiful damsel in his hand in 1933's King Kong, ...
Research facility CEO slams PETA as activists call for monkeys to be sent to sanctuary
The CEO of a Lowcountry primate research facility has blunt words for one of the animal rights organizations calling for the ...
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Snakes, monkeys must not swallow $1.07bn earmarked for health, Atiku warns
Former Vice President of Nigeria Atiku Abubakar has warned that claims of animals such as snakes, termites, gorillas and ...
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Watch Lola Young Cover Arctic Monkeys’ “I Wanna Be Yours”
I’d never heard of the London alt-popper Lola Young before she appeared on Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia late last year, but she’s rapidly becoming a very big deal. Young’s viral hit “Messy” has ...
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Can these wild Florida monkeys give you herpes? Here’s where they’ve been seen
Nowadays, these monkeys can be found throughout Central Florida — though some counties have had more sightings than others.