Angry monkeys take revenge
The man in the china was abusing three monkeys to perform some tricks. This again provided an opportunity to look at how we treat animals.
The monkeys were forced to ride mini-bicycles and while doing that they were hit with a stick. Having tolerating enough of this cruelty, monkeys decided to take matters in to their own hands. Among the three of these monkeys one twisted his ears and pulled out his hair and bit his back. Then when trainer dropped the cane, the third monkey picked it up and started hitting him around the head with it until the stick broke.
In the earlier of this week, two people were injured by stones thrown to them by chimpanzee at Kolkata Zoo in India because the visitors were teasing those chimpanzees and throwing things at them.
The animals in china are treated badly for sometime. It is now hoped that police will investigate claim of animal cruelty and confiscate the monkey. In china, their have been plenty of media stores about animal being abused to make them perform. But it does not only happen in china, in countries like UK also animals are treated to make to perform in circuses. Though we don’t have bike-riding monkeys in UK circus but there are lions and tigers to perform, dogs riding on backs of horses, an elderly arthritic elephants and other animals. Despite the UK being heralded as a “nation of animal lovers”, this cruelty still continues around us.
Therefore, it is not all surprising to know when animal decide to hit back against the cruelty inflicted on them by humans. In fact, it is the bigger surprise that it doesn’t happen more often. We need to recognize that animals are not here for our amusement, to be made to perform in the markets of china or the big tops of UK circuses or caged at Zoos for us to intent look. All animals, human and non-humans share many things in common, emotion being one. In the book, the Emotional Lives of Animals says “lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication.”
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