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Re:Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indi... by perl4ever on Saturday December 18, 2021 @08:41PM (#29610570)
There have been articles, probably also threads on HN, about monkeys enslaved and used to harvest crops or something. I don't remember all the details, but they pull out their teeth so they can't bite, and coerce them into working much faster than humans could.
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Re:Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indi... by xaedes on Sunday December 19, 2021 @08:28AM (#29613756)
Sounds pretty gruesome. However, the concept of it seems to be ancient. The great Indian epic of Ramayana has a part that tells how they build Adam's / Rama's bridge to Sri Lanka with the "help" of monkeys:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Monkeys_and_Bears_Bui...

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