A video of a woman in Bali, Indonesia, negotiating with a monkey and bribing the animal with food to get her stolen phone back has recently gone viral on social media, highlighting how primates in Indonesian temples are learning how to bargain.
The woman initially offers one fruit; however, the monkey seems disinterested in her proposal, prompting her to get another fruit from her bag. The monkey eventually agrees with the second offer and hands the phone back to the woman.
Going viral: The post went viral on the two social media platforms, receiving over 25.3 million post views on X and amassing more than 344,000 likes on Instagram.
Meanwhile, Instagram users also found the interaction funny, with one user noting that next time, the monkeys will “pull out a small iPad and ask us to pay gratuities as well.”
Another Instagram user also pondered, “So you’re telling me someone could walk up there with a bag of apples and walk away with a handful of phones.”
The monkeys reportedly learned this behavior of stealing and bartering from other older monkeys when they were young and up to 4 years old.
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