I love the natural world, especially animals, they're one of my main interests. I can safely say that the one animal that truly scares me is a
rampaging chimpanzee. Other animals I respect greatly, and I'm including the ones that most people would consider "vicious" animals, but none of
them scare me to the degree that a primate does. Tigers, lions, leopards, sharks, snakes, elephants, hippos, wildebeests, ALL exhibit fairly standard
behaviors, and if you understand animals and can read their behavior, you can get yourself out of some pretty tight scrapes, and avoid most scrapes
alltogether. But monkeys....they often act without provocation, without any outward signs, and they are relentless.
They are faster and stronger than we are, and once they set upon us with the intent to do harm, they will carry through. A single chimpanzee can
easily subdue a full grown man and do horrific damage, ultimately ending in death. The damage they do is particularly jarring and deliberate. Eating
of eyeballs, faces, fingers, hands, feet, are all common when chimps attack humans.
Wild chimps (and other primates) sometimes organise attacks against each other for seemingly no other reason than "they can" and they kill with the
utmost cruelty, sometimes even drawing the attack out for a torturous effect. Deliberate cruelty from animals, scares me. Behavior like that is
something you typically find being doled out only by humans.
If the world were placed in a survival situation, and the zoo animals were running, flying, swimming and slithering over the countryside, the only
animals I would have nightmares over? Monkeys.
edit on 15-11-2011 by Anthropormorphic because: spell