Monkey Adopts Adorable Stray Puppy
January 25, 2017 9:59 PM   Subscribe

A rhesus macaque monkey found a stray dog puppy in the neighbourhood of Kareli, in the mid-western Indian city of Allahabad, on Tuesday, and adopted it as if it were its own baby. As the primate was seen attentively holding the pup in its arms and carrying it through the city's streets, local people gathered around to see the two animals and take pictures of them. Both the monkey and the pup were given food and plenty of attention.
posted by grobertson (26 comments total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
 
What must that dog be thinking?
posted by mykescipark at 10:10 PM on January 25, 2017


Probably the same thing dogs everywhere think when primates adopt them...
posted by senor biggles at 10:42 PM on January 25, 2017 [36 favorites]


Another Tarzan dog in the making there, I think.
posted by rongorongo at 11:05 PM on January 25, 2017 [1 favorite]


Maybe it's just me, but that dog does not look happy.
posted by BigHeartedGuy at 11:08 PM on January 25, 2017 [3 favorites]


Leave them alone. They're doing a better job of defeating [it] than we are.
posted by Token Meme at 11:21 PM on January 25, 2017


I wonder if the monkey figured out that holding the puppy would get it food.
posted by clockzero at 11:29 PM on January 25, 2017 [3 favorites]


I wonder if the monkey figured out that holding the puppy would get it food.
Yeah. It probably also knows a version of "I'm a believer" in case the puppy bombs.
posted by rongorongo at 11:40 PM on January 25, 2017 [4 favorites]


I know the internet wants to see this and feel all mushy inside and say, "the monkey loves that cute little puppy!", but I don't like to ascribe human motivations to animals, and I say the monkey is carefully carrying around its delicious puppy dinner.
posted by glitter at 12:32 AM on January 26, 2017 [2 favorites]


From the wiki:
They are mostly herbivorous, feeding mainly on fruit, but also eating seeds, roots, buds, bark, and cereals. ... They have also been observed eating termites, grasshoppers, ants, and beetles.
I think a puppy would be a radical change of diet.
posted by Gyan at 12:43 AM on January 26, 2017 [14 favorites]


It's a better version of the monkey puppy baby commercial.
posted by mattamatic at 1:40 AM on January 26, 2017


They are mostly herbivorous, feeding mainly on fruit, but also eating seeds, roots, buds, bark, and cereals.
posted by hal9k at 2:10 AM on January 26, 2017 [42 favorites]


The puppy looks resigned to the absurdities of life.

The monkey is all "my puppy, mine! Bugger off and stop staring at me!"
posted by kitten magic at 2:20 AM on January 26, 2017 [5 favorites]


idk it's no baby monkey riding backwards on a pig
posted by poffin boffin at 2:38 AM on January 26, 2017 [8 favorites]


If the puppy were truly unhappy with its situation it would just leave, either peacefully or not. The puppy doesn't look playful and happy like some puppies, but who knows what that puppy is like at other times.

Articles like these rarely have any follow-up (sadly), but I'd be curious to see 8 months from now whether there is a monkey/dog pair sticking with each other around town still drawing attention. Would the full-grown dog, if still with the monkey, let the monkey ride on it? Would they resemble Jay & Silent Bob [in Clerks] as friends, standing next to a wall obviously near each other, or would they be more Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, full of mirth and joy?

I wish much of what I encountered online had follow-up articles, really. Maybe not as aggressively as the 7-Up series of documentaries, but certainly more than nothing, which is what I usually get.

Hell, if I could subscribe to article updates like I can podcasts or attach push notifications to specific things I've read rather than entire websites, I'd be all over that.

Shit, I just had my million dollar idea. Everyone please forget you've read this.
posted by hippybear at 3:18 AM on January 26, 2017 [17 favorites]


Do report back in 8 months.
posted by Gyan at 3:30 AM on January 26, 2017 [4 favorites]




I wonder if dogs are immune to Macacine herpesvirus 1.
posted by srboisvert at 4:52 AM on January 26, 2017


The puppy doesn't look playful and happy like some puppies, but who knows what that puppy is like at other times.

When I woke up this morning, I had no idea that over breakfast I would be pondering the inner life of a dog in Allahabad.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 5:56 AM on January 26, 2017 [19 favorites]


"I think a puppy would be a radical change of diet."

is a great sentence. That's all.
posted by kleinsteradikaleminderheit at 6:23 AM on January 26, 2017 [5 favorites]


Looks cute in this case, but other cases of "adoption" of puppies by monkeys start with kidnapping and abuse and don't look cute at all for the puppies (also).
posted by elgilito at 7:26 AM on January 26, 2017


monkeys start with kidnapping and abuse

Unlike the macaque in the OP, the baboons in your links though mostly herbivores do occasionally eat meat (and presumably puppies).
posted by Ashwagandha at 7:30 AM on January 26, 2017


Dogs don't like being carried for the most part, so this video makes me a bit uneasy to see this very young puppy carried about like a rag doll.

I hate macaques. Screaming, thieving bastards.
posted by peripathetic at 9:46 AM on January 26, 2017 [1 favorite]


Anyone else think the monkey looks like it's feeling harassed? Very interesting and all, but leave the poor thing alone.
posted by BlueHorse at 11:41 AM on January 26, 2017 [1 favorite]


Its all a big scam, at the end of the day once they get all their food given to them, they split their ways, and meet again the next day to work the crowds again.. They know how to manipulate the people..
posted by Merlin The Happy Pig at 4:39 PM on January 26, 2017 [1 favorite]


I approve of this post.
posted by mono blanco at 5:11 PM on January 26, 2017 [1 favorite]


Reminds me of a previous post about Roscoe and the Orangutan.....
posted by haikuku at 7:05 AM on January 27, 2017


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