coconut monkey

Pigtail monkey is the one of macaque family. They are spread at South East Asian. For long time, they have been working for human being. They are smart to harvest the coconut.

Only trained monkey can harvest coconut. The wild monkey should be trained first. The wild will run to the wild if you order to harvest coconut. The process is quite difficult too. They need 8 months to train. The monkey diviner trains the monkey. The diviner tied a coconut to a piece of wood. Then he orders the monkey. First time, the monkey must confuse what the people say. The diviner hold the monkey hand and spin the coconut until the coconut fall.

In West Sumatra village, you can see a bicycle man bring a monkey. The man is the monkey owners. They offer coconut harvest service to the coconut farmer. The service fee is very cheap. The monkey owners could get one coconut for every ten harvested coconuts. In one day, a monkey could harvest 1,200 coconuts.

After harvesting the coconuts, the owner gives some special food like sweet milk. Beside milk, the coconut will get some rice, banana, biscuits, etc.

Some harvested monkey could get special treatments from the owners. They will stay at good cage and get delicious food. When the monkey is mature, the owners find the "wife" too. Unfortunately, not all owners are kind man. When the monkey is mature, they will eliminate the monkey. As most monkey, they will become wild, if they have no wife. Therefore, the animal right should