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- At the Uluwatu Temple in Bali, Indonesia, the long-tailed macaques that live there are infamous for stealing tourist's possessions. But it's not just playground tomfoolery - these monkeys use the stolen goods to barter for their supper.
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The best part is the camera crew knowing someone is about to be jacked, and rather than warn them of the threat they zoom in on the shot
Hahaha
They work mouths for this 3:28 piece of art.
I think they are used to that. They film killings all the time.
They are warned by the guide and its inevitable,cameraman just waiting for the moment
the camera crew work for the monkeys 😂
The best part was, HOW DARE YOU??? to bargain a smartphone with the banana... Monkey got the imported KitKat chocolate bar and left the phone...😁
Btw, Kitkat is not imported there, its produced locally by nestle Indonesia, and they are exported also.
@@user-uu8mn1eg7s
🤣
@@user-uu8mn1eg7skitkat made with palm oil and orangutan blood
And now we know why he's so fat - he's been eating too many candy bars.
I see, good for the country to make it locally so many locals generate income from it@@user-uu8mn1eg7s
Sometimes the barter goes a bit different. At that very spot in Bali I once saw a monkey snatch some expensive glasses from a dude much like in this video, and when a Balinese guy came to offer it a banana, the monkey took it with one hand while holding the glasses in the other. Then it thought for a moment, realised it needed the other hand to peel the banana, took one last look at the glasses and tossed them right off that cliff into the ocean. That was one long and spectacular fall, everyone was laughing. The guy who owned the glasses tried to laugh along but you could tell how much he was mourning his loss.
Wait don't they use their feet too?
@@yesikanarvaez5027They can, but in that case it chose not to. Funny thing was how the monkey was deciding what to do with the glasses once it got the fruit, looked to the left where all the people were standing, looked to the right which was off the cliff to the ocean, and figured the right was right.
Tourists are incredibly stupid knowing what these monkeys are capable off and yet they have glasses and phones all exposed and ready to be yanked off them
Hey all, appreciate comments. My point is you may lose specialist $300 glasses (with sturdy wetsuite material keepers) as per what happened to my companion. I saw a lot more get 'lost' in a very short space of time and the Balinese well the 'keeper' was asleep. However, you may also risk getting rabbies. Do your own checking.
dawn of the planet of the apes fr fr
Old mate has ascended to the title of Godfather. Running his own little monkey mafia 😆 Respect!
He is making offers the tourists can't refuse 😅
@@ishitapaul5594 You offer me a banana, on this, the day of my daughter's wedding? It's chocolate or your phone is sleeping with the fishes.
@@attemptedunkindness3632😂😂😂
So when monkeys mug people, they get respect but when I do it, I get three years behind bars.
Life is so cruel.
This is insane.. an actual monkey mafia.
Wait til they turn up behind you at the ATM
I was there, lost a pair of shades and a tube of sunscreen myself. I didn't give them anything, so they break the shades, twisted it like a pretzel, and throw it away. Could be worse, I saw a Korean girl losing her brand new, top of the line smartphone down the cliffs. No ransoming that one back. There was also an Indian mom choked while getting her necklace yanked off. The chain was too strong, both fortunately and unfortunately.
A domestic tourist from Surabaya tried to ransom back his glasses immediately with his box of fried chicken meal, but the monkeys seemed to not understand that because the meal is in a box. He ended up paying a local granny to ransom those with a banana, something the monkey understands.
The view is wonderful, but the experience is one under a looming sense of terror and insecurity from the monkeys.
They snapped my friends glasses in half the same way 😄😄
Local granny: "Give me your smart watch and I'll give you a banana to get back your smartphone from the 🐵. You'll be ahead overall."
Pretty sure those monkeys and granny are working together.
@ronrolfsen3977 😂😂
What happens when they figure out you can steal money and go to a store and buy food. Worldwide monkey crime syndicate.
Wallets are harder to get to, usually tucked away in pockets or purses.
Planet of the monkes
Too much work.
That's like the discovery of fire to these monkeys. Pure chaos
not their system lol
I'm not sure that's bartering, more like ransoming. They are literally stealing & holding the items to ransom! They seem to study what is most precious to the humans! 😅
No. They study what are humans MOST COMPULSIVE about... These days, it's the PHONE.
@@omkarlinga9002 Are value and compulsion not intertwined? The things you think are valuable to you are also those you are most compulsive about
@@omkarlinga9002Back in your day it was the abacus and papyrus
Imagine they're much much bigger and you brought along your newborn baby.
@@MangaGamify I wouldn't take a baby or a child anywhere near a monkey/ape. There were reports the other year they were snatching babies out of open windows in Japan I think, or somewhere monkeys were living naturally, close to humans. Not worth the risk.
that is not bargaining! that is ransoming!
More like extortion.
not if he sells it to another person
It's not with money
Well with the glasses not really you can live without them but when they started snatching sandals that’s when shit turned criminal lol
@@maythesciencebewithyou Then it's fencing stolen goods lol
3:05 Hahahah the way he is chilling and eating chips XD what a legend
yeah after get ransom he enjoy the chips
he just like me fr
It is actually very bad food for the monkeys! They will get tooth decay instead of foraging for healthy natural food in the forest.
My father once brought my mum a very rare watch he got it from a monkey... I found it hard to believe until I saw this
Ur father is a compliance of robbery
Actually I remembered that watch it was Fossil,my mother wore it like for 10 years 🤣
Your dad negotiated with the monkey and got someone's watch? Sorry I got confused
@@hutt1936yes that's what happened
@@hutt1936 no he didn't I'm sure he forced the monkey to drop it...monkeys do steal items that are not food
The one eating the Pringles at the end, really made me giggle :)
This story proves monkeys and humans are closely related.
Other people: “Oh, that’s so cute! It took someone’s stuff and it wants to trade!”
Me: “Hey monkey, I’ll give you chocolate, a bag of chips, and a banana for an iPhone 15 and a pair of Ray-Bans. Show me what you got.”
😂🐒
Honestly I can't imagine they're not getting trained for that already
I remember someone trained the local crows at the college to bring them money in exchange from food
:p
@@LalitaLunaYogini monkey on that temple is wild monkey not someone pet
Khajit has wares if you have coin
The monkey @3:07 savoring potato chips from a can - priceless
Those are Pringles
@@yesikanarvaez5027which are potato chips so yeah...
They shouldn't be fed junk food like potato chips and chocolate. It is bad for their health and tooth decay from eating so much salt and sugar.
As a monke I can confirm this is what we do for living
u from NYC?
Y?
you must be the 13% , the usual suspect.
@MinhTran-fc7jl always someone in the comments making stuff about race.
lol
"I don't care about your smartphone, give me a chocolate bar and we're good."
"I'm worth more than a banana... How dare you?!!"
I was told by the locals that you have to bring along sticks to scare them away, any sticks, walking sticks, large enough tree branch. They said you have to hit it to the ground and shout when they approach before they steal anything. You should not bring out hats, phones, and glasses in monkey areas (such as Ubud if I'm not mistaken).
Why, bargaining with monkeys is part of the experience lol
Ya, ubud monkey Forrest, uluwaty temple, alas kedaton monkey forrest, sangeh monkey Forrest, pulaki temple, and lempuyang sacred hill.
I would highly advise NOT to act aggressive! Macaques can attack if they feel threatened. Either play along, or don't bring anything they can steal, or don't go!
One of those gremlin snatched my sunglass and run to nearest tree branch when I visited the uluwatu temple last year. I couldn't care less at first because it's just a cheap $5 sunglasses that I bought from a shop in Legian. But then there's a local woman come to us with a bag of chips and gave it to the monkey, which make the monkey immediately throw my sunglasses to the ground.
@@winzyl9546 if you think it's part of the experience you should do it 😊
This shows me that organized crime has been around since before we evolved into humans.
its not crime when there is no laws
@@RareTSthere is natural rules or laws, if you don’t consistently give the phone back, you won’t get the chocolate bars.
…as was prostitution…
Evolution is not true. For starters, these monkeys seem smarter than people.
We didn't evolve.🙄
Scientifically impossible to. Darwin was wrong.
I was a “victim" of this con in 1997 😂. Funny thing is that the ground keepers are the ones with the food to barter (in my case two bags of peanuts) Both monkeys and men are in the racket together. These men expect a cash tip after they hand the monkeys the food.
Ah. But their hands are "clean." Brilliant
wear contacts, lace up shoes, travelers pouch under your clothes, no phones out, no camera, no hats, no sunglasses XD
Monke proof yourself
Some day they're going to realize either:
- The phone is worth so much more than even the increased food they're trying to get (near future)
- The phone is worth a lot of cash, which then could be used to buy food in bulk (5-10 years)
- The phone itself is an extremely useful tool once you learn how to use it (10 years or more)
Apparently phone and camera are the most wanted properties to be taken by monkey, as if they snatched it, human will bribing them with the much tastier food
I think all their deals are item for item. They obviously can rank values, but they don't seem to think in terms of quantity, or of future payout.
@@Spearcathey allready did and that's us
Yeah, cos evolution from a monkey to a super-intelligent tech using species takes 10 years.......
And then they'll start to realise that they are in jail for ransom and kidnapping
Rumor said, that the monkey "handlers" actually trained the monkeys to steal stuff from tourists for the "ransom". If the tourist pay the handler some money, they'll retreive the item back.
Or at least thats what my parents said when i visit Bali as a kid
Not a rumour. Just do a bit of research on travel websites of Uluwatu Temple and one will learn the truth.
Wouldn't surprise me
They could make an animated movie out of this 😂
Tell Disney to make one please 🙏🏾
@@sycofya1677 maybe not Disney, considering how awful their situation now. Dreamwork is the good option
It's called Aladdin
They make a cameo in the movie Rio😂except they don’t barter
And the movie's name could be given " the art of blackmailing " !!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁
The last one with the Pringles 😂
And now the tourists will come so they can barter with monkeys instead of seeing the temple😂
Imma go there to make a deal for one to steal something for me lol
The temple isn't that remarkable or different from many, many others, even nearby. The monkeys are the real attraction.
People have been going there to see the monkeys. The temple is called the monkey temple.
@@maythesciencebewithyounope this is Uluwatu cliff temple. The other one is monkey forest ubud, not a temple
So the Real Job of the Monkeys is being the Marketing Managers of the Tourist Attraction which most humans didn't really understand 🤓😎
What's scary that they didn't show is that they work in teams. I had to have my prescription glasses on or else I couldn't see but I was warned so I was careful not to have any monkey in my vicinity. Unfortunately, certain part of the area is just a narrow stairway, so I was on alert, as a monkey swing down from the tree in front of me, I dodge away, a monkey from behind snatched my glasses away. I didn't think it was preventable in that situation, fortunately I was able to get it back through bartering, though it was slightly damaged :( .
There is also a very visible sign upon entering to remove your glasses and loose objects. I emptied my pockets, put phone and glasses in my bag and held it across my chest. I had so much fun at this temple.
Next time just heed the warnings 😂
@@jonber9411 If you didn't read my post clearly, let me spell it out for you, it was a prescription glasses that I "NEEDED" to see. There is no point for me to go there with my glasses off as I couldn't see anything without them.
Those are some Chunky Monkeys 😂
lol I think that's why Sir David identified the fat-bellied one as "male" because otherwise everyone will think it's a pregnant female.
Hey all, as a long time Bali visitor my view is the monkeys are dangerous period....thousands of the general public have complained and over years....if you go you risk losing glasses, hats etc but you also risk being scratched or bitten. Charming they are not! They are bold, aggressive, quick and will threaten you. They want what you've got and you are in 'their territory' and 'game plan'. My advice is to steer clear.
Heh seeing the thumbnail I was like oh it's like in my southern hemisphere capital, now even more so!
I think that's understood. Wild animals stealing things does not seem like good culture.
Monkeys are going to behave like monkeys. What do you expect when tourists invade their space? This is what happens. It's like complaining about sea gulls at beaches or boars in the forest.
it´s their island
I spent hours under a tree populated by monkeys. Took selfies with them, gave them peanuts.
One elder showed me his teeth (i.e. he warned me), because I got to close.
Nothing else happened. Me peaceful - them peaceful.
Most animal places: *DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS UNDER PENALTY OF A $600 FINE.*
Bali: Yeah you're gonna have to feed the animals to get your Ray-Bans back, sorry.
And probably also a sign saying: Do not feed monkeys they have rabies.. I have been to the region.
Ja, diese dreckigen Kotsaecke zu füttern, ist totale Ressourcenverschwendung und sollte verboten werden!
I have been to Bali 3times. I had same experience by clever & charming monkeys😊😊
Thank you Bali and BBC earth video that bring me good memorise!!
charming? they are disgusting and dangerous pests
That's my dream place to visit
@@notthatguypal14
I hope your dream will come true🙂Bali, some holy& healing place, world-heritage and nature is quite excellent.
I pray you, your family good health and enjoy travel.
@@notthatguypal14 keep it in mind, its not as dreamy as its promised, dont put ur expectation too high, so you dont disappointed.
@@notthatguypal14 as long as you not visit the place where kleptomaniac monkeys roaming freely like this
It's Monkey Business 😂😂😂
We weren’t aware of how this worked and in trying to get a pair of sunglasses back for another tourist my mate grabbed them whilst I was trying to talk to the monkey. He legged it along towards the temple with the monkey in hot pursuit. Funny as that was, I feel a bit guilty now despite them not even being our sunnies 😂
That's hilarious. Did the monkey catch him?
@@dahui58 it chased him for about fifty yards along the coastal path before giving up!
its a fucking tree rat who cares.
Now I need a compilation of people getting their items back by force lol
And getting their hands promptly chewed off.
bartering? More like blackmail 😂
lol and mugging
@@TonyEnglandUK 😂
They are not really bartering. They are just taking your things and asking you to pay for it. They are lucky they aren’t getting prosecuted for kidnapping and ransoms!
"To trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services"
-Merriam-Webster Dictionary
What the macaques are doing is exactly bartering
There is some negotiation cause they'll hiss if someone doesn't make a good enough offer and only drop the phone once they're satisfied.
@@jamesburnett3594just not an actual barter since they are not bringing something of theirs to trade, they are stealing and extorting, trading back your own stuff for something they want
don`t you know what kidnapping means?
Something about kids who are napping?
BBC is upper hand above all! So many footages capturing the same happening, here we witness a sequel - negotiation skills! Simian commercial is at its dawn.
It's just fascinating ro ponder on how this undesirable, (partly forced to be adaptive?), behavior rose & how quickly spread among a local group!
Anyone who thinks primates and humans have major differences just needs to watch this a few times…
Some humans more than others
Humans are primates.
Ur kidding..I don’t see the animals using the phones..or inventing the phones or manufacturing the phones running their own farms to grow food..or building hospitals…you’re closer to them than they are to you…
Or they could just watch Planet of the Apes
@@therealBocaStudios Nuh uh, my gf only understand consuming and never work in her entire life. At least these monkeys put some kind of efforts.
They do the same thing in Vrindavan, India. I had it happen twice, once while on a moving tuktuk. Different species of monkey there.
Were those monkeys black faced or red faced?
@@muslimcel4581 in vrindavan they are red
@@muslimcel4581 red... perhaps they are the same
@@MrColinManning the red ones macaques are bad and ageessive the black ones langoors are good and docile
No one cares
David sir voice is what made me come here
Love the Italian Mafia music when they introduce the old monkeys "doing very well".
2:30 this shot is too majestic man lol
Same thing happens at various locations in India, specifically Mathura... They ask for 3 banana atleast, and threaten to break spectacles/ phone if delayed
This is why I don't use outdoor ATMs.
ATM=Accessory To Mugging
@@wildnfree101Accessibility*
The commentary.....❤😂 Superb!! Made it even more interesting to watch... Btw, how did you manage to protect your camera from them while shooting this piece😅
British man is in shock on how they give back what they took.
Okay come on, the banana for the flip flops were a fair deal... I understand the anger over the smartphone...
Macaques: *Steals phone*
Me: if you don’t give that back, I’ll cook you for dinner.
We r dealing with most wanted dealers in the area. 😂😂
How much time did you save by omitting the a and the e in 'are'?
@@blucat40.5 sec..
Ransom, extortion, drugs not the way I thought planet of the apes was going to happen
Oh my god that's hilarious him eating the chips lol
...and we are looking for aliens to come from the sky 😂 🤦
These guys would scare the aliens away.
Das sind selber widerliche Aliens. Es gibt keine haesslicheren Monster auf der Welt und auch keine mutzloseren!
0:35 "if you know where to look" camera changes angle to monke intensely scanning the horizon
Hustling is universal 😅
Barter trade is back ladies and gentlemen 😂
The little racketeers!
I thought the title said The Bartending Monkeys of Bali. I watched half the video waiting for them to serve drinks and wondering what kind they could make.
😂
The art and deception of "the hustle" - a well-honed skill of both man and monkey!
That is how bartering and trading first started 😉
Great Monkey Business 😅
Humans being outsmarted by monkeys.
Well.... it doesn't take much.
Human once smarter than monkey, but now the table has turned
@@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434Unlike modern humans monkeys know that there are only two sexes
Go to respect the hustle.
Was laughing my way through it! Amazing!
At first glance I thought it said the "bartending" monkeys of Bali. I though "oh, I GOTTA see this" 🤣
I'm watching this well stoned and those panning shots of the elder monke's is incredibly beautiful. Sir David is also ever the soothing auditory pleasure.
As macaques can imitate humans,this ain’t a surprise to me.
This is why they have signs saying "don't feed [insert animal]" 😮
Ape just chilling and eating chips from a bag is just wholesome to look at.
Monkey, not an ape.
The first one stole his glasses lmao.
The chips 🤣🤣🤣
They're so smart! And cute.😂❤
My favourite vegan you're the cute one here🌹
Thank you for being a vegan.
You Too 😂❤
An diesen dreckigen Kreaturen ist nichts "cute" oder "smart"! Diese Abscheulichkeiten zu füttern und verwöhnen ist totale Ressourcenverschwendung und einfach Idiotisch!
The origin of mankind - never changed
monkey eating a can of pringles is a vibe
this is better than hollywood
keep up sir david attenborough
This was hilariously beautiful 🤣🤣🤣
They are in huge number here at Khandagiri Caves at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Do they do the same thing? Like steal stuff and then ask for food in return?
@@mupalsyes they are also more agressive
No one cares
@@absyahwa7698 I care
Banana? How dare you! 😂
I read as Bartending Monkey and was waiting to see their mixing skill.😂
I always thought it was strange that people will openly admit they can’t read well
@@micperez819 Sarcasm is dead to you, isn’t it?
@@LongNguyen-ce8nn You have no clue what sarcasm is. Fail at trying to save face
@@micperez819Little slips can occur to anyone. That's not a test of their reading or intellectual capacity, so it would be good if you didn't act like an a$$hat about it. And besides, I would rather someone was confident when it came to admitting their shortcomings and laughing at themselves rather than being paranoid about looking perfect.
That's a very respectful Monk-E, fair trader.
Im gonna trade some chips for someones phone and get rich
Side hussle
Kind of ignoring that there is a whole business going on where monkey "handlers" will charge to get stuff back for tourists. They just so happen to have bananas and chocolate on them at all times. Bali is just a big tourist trap, the beaches are pretty bad as well.
3:07 The Good Life.
This is actually incredible how the monkeys understand not only what is valuable but which item has a higher worth to humans then decided to use that as a negotiation tactic. Insanely clever methods of adaptation 🤯👏
God help us all when they start stealing our cars.
I respect the hustle 😂
I read the title as *Bartending* Monkey and now I really want one! XD
ahh. not too different from a banker then.
That last one with the entire can of Pringles hit hard......
Misread the title as "Bartending Monkeys." I'm not disappointed, because this was hilarious, but also now i really want to see some "monkey bars"
F.Y.I those mafia monkeys are roams around in Uluwatu Temple where the famous Kecak Dance were held during sunset hours, so kindly keep your belongings in secured in your purse/bag when you roams around the temple area away from the stage area where Kecak Dance were performed. Happy holiday and don't let the monkeys snatch your belongings.
The real "monkey business"
I went to Uluwatu Temple yesterday and the monkeys stole two phones, it was brilliant 😂
These monkies are slowly evolving learning from us lol
Extortion just like some people.😂
Even better, they realize that the human isn’t going to harm them with all those other people around 😂
Humans even getting fleeced by monkeys now I shed a tear for my species.
When we visited our driver walked ahead of us with a big Reed swatting over the stone walls to scare them away. Sneaky things.
They create a problem, than give the solution. True business
When you're on vacation and suddenly find yourself doing a side quest...
Clever little monkeys 😂
You would think, after some time that you’d be warned or wise enough to tie down or pocket anything loose on you so they’re not ripped off. Especially holding your phone in your hand.
True but most victims are tourists who don't know better.
Oh I live for these kinds of videos, I’m going to Bali. I value my glasses more than my cell phone though, wonder if they’ll know lol