The Carefree Days Are Over for These Adolescent Monkeys

The King troop, made up of over 40 toque macaques, is one of the largest in Sri Lanka. And now that the adolescents of the group are on the cusp of adulthood, they'll soon be forced to leave.
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[@ahmedshaharyarejaz9886]

They have such expressive faces

[@susanurban5920]

They’re nasty and vicious.

[@woodrowrunyon9235]

Ya especially when u hang em upside down by there nutsacks with a fish hook from a tree branch!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MysteryofScience]

this type of videography is heaven 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@MrJimmyritchie]

Because they use real cameras with zoom lenses, not chasing them with phones.

[@javathehunt790]

I agree. Heaven TV for me would be David Attenborough narrating constant documentaries on every creature in the known and unknown universe.

[@ClichéGuevara-2814]

@@javathehunt790 There should be an Attenborough channel.

[@Oona707]

If only we could see ALL the footage

[@LordSlag]

I have always been mystified by those who say their child or teenage years were carefree. Those were the worst years of my whole fucking LIFE!

[@rekeshiabutler1933]

life sucks for most of us 😪😪😪😪

[@Monocheto1]

yeah, kinda makes me feel unconfortable when in every conversation most people like to remember those "happier" times

[@Theo_56247]

@@Monocheto1 Life is what you make it!

[@Monocheto1]

@@Theo_56247 yeah, i know its my bad, just wanted to share, my life is really good now and im happy for that

[@Theo_56247]

@@Monocheto1 Wow! That's fantastic! ❤️ It's been 11 months and you found a way to be happy. 👍

[@Bobsloth13]

6 year old teenager who knew

[@MsDestiny2222]

First I'm seeing this breed of Monkey's, interesting! I watch all a lot of monkey video's, snow monkey the LTM and others. Love the hair style on this breed, too funny.

[@BTCBlizzy]

Can I PLEEEAASE have the full video 😫 where can I find/watch it? This can’t be it...

[@singlesinceforever1964]

Monkey Friendship, very cute 💘

[@why3011]

Ravi is beautiful

[@ReginaRR]

Fetching hair styles indeed

[@lindadiaz3268]

Those babies are so adorable🙊🙉🙈

[@koisneurotypical]

How can I see this whole show?!?!?!

[@riverstone9005]

They are so cute!! 😍😍

[@BlissfulBluebell]

2:33 when they want to move back in after college 😂😂

[@javathehunt790]

2:59 Are you certain? Are you sure it wasn’t more along the lines of... ”Her torn ear is a sign that she was fed by a tourist or VO while an alpha male was watching her, when she was younger.”

[@riverstone9005]

I highly doubt she is familiar with being fed by tourists

[@javathehunt790]

@@riverstone9005 you see those stones? That’s a temple. People are there

[@javathehunt790]

@@riverstone9005 1:28 Nature doesn’t cut grass like that...

[@riverstone9005]

@@javathehunt790 Just because people are there, it doesn't mean they are fed by them.

[@bombaybead3759]

The jackfruit is given there by humans to feed monkeys!

[@av8tore71]

Why can't these videos be longer than a 3+ minute teaser

[@suryoardi7109]

Plot twist : this is how human in paradise

[@SwedePotato314]

Who is their barber??

[@2l84me8]

They are similar to hyenas in which the males must also leave the group to find new ones and prevent inbreeding. The males are also at the bottom of the hierarchy.

[@slayer40sw]

fetching hair styles? I wouldn't call a bowl cuts "fetching"...🙄

[@SwedePotato314]

Shes like Raffi get a freakin job and move out ya bum

[@NinoNiemanThe1st]

"Living in this idyllic temple paradise" and "up to a third infant macaques die" - sounds like the 3rd world to me!

[@johncraig1431]

Amazing even monkeys have a privileged class.

[@Smurphy415]

Yall, lower the music.

[@Oona707]

They're so much like the crab eaters

[@jessesalcedo3968]

If there could be a narrator for these videos where monkeys are being beaten and gutted to death...Would help for clarification so we can understand why. These VO's and with their lousy titles don't help...lol

[@susanurban5920]

Yup, get rid of those young males. Don’t need brother and sister mating or father and daughter. It’s a very bad idea....it produces weak animals.

[@marybabineux4818]

Like this troop

[@BrianKeith2006]

In my opinion this species is the most unattractive of all macaques because of their funny looking hairstyle. I love long-tail macaques the most. If you haven't watched before lookup Sweet Pea monkey on KZbin and you will laugh at how he quacks like a duck when he was little. Sadly his mother was stabbed to death and his father was shot and killed just yesterday.

[@user-lu8qi1py1o]

Nice hairs

[@user-ej2gg2re9q]

💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@-los-7291]

These macaques look like whytpipo, some of them actually had tails back in those neandrathal days. They probably still do lol

[@AyaadhAmeen]

Wish I can have one of these as pets

[@BradleyVolk3]

no you dont. trust me.

[@Theo_56247]

No!

[@fun-yuns]

Dude be careful around them they can be savages

[@starblossom1370]

No you don't.. you will rethink it if you have a kid or by the time of the monkeys puberty.. They are demanding and destructive.

[@TMS-pj7fp]

I would assume both male and female's who reached maturity would leave to stop inbreeding, not just males. I would have thought females born into the troop, usually fathered by alpha male and maybe 1-2 high ranking member males, would have a chance of breeding with their father. I'm thinking now I'm wrong, based on this documentary, but still dont understand how females don't run risk of inbreeding. Maybe because females dont become sexually mature until around 4-5 and alpha males dont usually reign for many years, but again I may be misunderstanding it.

[@greatmnn3868]

Alpha can breed with Thier daughters... Its very common in Lions pride...

[@TMS-pj7fp]

@@greatmnn3868 I dont think its common with monkeys but as u say it may be common in lions or other species, other than monkeys.

[@tut28Angel]

I'm confused how is 'the females stay with their birth clan 4 life' not cause inbreeding?

[@darkhorse5753]

The Alpha male who fathered those daughters is now well past his prime and dropped several places in the hierarchy to the point they don't mate very often- retired so to speak.

[@YldMaine]

Samething with lion prides. I asked myself this all the time. Like, Rn't those his daughters still?? Then there's the video of the leopard who chased her own daughter far away but kept her son lingering in the same territory as her.

[@johnc7833]

new immigrant males enter the troop, and there are a bunch of challenges to establish his rank. He will father babies with the females of the troop, and if he’s tough enough could rise to be a high ranking monkey himself. The teenage monkeys who leave their maternal troops find new troops and have to face this same challenge. That’s how they avoid the inbreeding.

[@tut28Angel]

@@johnc7833 thank u. Dam we are related to monkeys. In laws am I right lol.

[@Sheeshening]

Feminists enthralled

[@esotericyetti327]

I hate macaques

[@lennarthagen3638]

Good for you i personaly love them, they should have human rights. You can go on hating i dont even care

[@jackiedaytona8802]

They need to all be in a lab

[@ir8free]

You belong behind bars for contemplating a crime hunting endangered species.

[@ganhaghag7663]

@@ir8free They arent endangered.