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If you've consumed coconut oil or coconut meat lately, there's a
reasonable chance it was imported from Thailand. And if it was,
there's an even better chance the farmer who grew that coconut
had a monkey fetch it from a tall tree.
Thailand has been
raising and training pigtailed macaques to pick coconuts for
around 400 years. Coconut farmers in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India
and other countries in the region sometimes rely on monkeys,
too.
Why monkeys? Turns out a male monkey can collect an
average of 1,600 coconuts per day and a female can get 600,
while a human can only collect around 80 per day. It's also
safer for a scampering, height-savvy monkey to pluck and drop
the fruit from the trees — up to 80 feet tall — than a human.
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