LONDON, April 6: A troop of mischievous monkeys at London Zoo has had to be retrained after showing too much interest in visitors’ mobile phones, officials said on Wednesday.
Visitors who held out the phones to take pictures or video of the squirrel monkeys in their no-barrier enclosure found the inquisitive primates could not resist the devices’ ring tones and bright lights.
A short training programme using old mobile phones covered in a sticky substance the monkeys dislike was then developed to prevent the animals trying to grab the phones.—AFP
