Published 17:17 IST, June 22nd 2020

Video of monkey removing 'stringy bits' of banana just like humans amuses netizens; Watch

Video of a monkey removing threads from a banana has left netizens ‘fascinated’ as they were surprised to see the similarity between humans and the animal.

Reported by: Bhavya Sukheja
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A video of a monkey removing fibrous thres from a banana has left several internet users ‘fascinated’ as y were surprised to see similarity between humans and animal. While scientists believe that chimpanzees are closest living relatives of humans, similar behaviour trait of monkey has prompted netizens to call m ‘intelligent’ as well. 

Shared on several social media platforms, short clip shows that monkey sitting near a tree stump with her baby crawling around. ‘Intelligent’ animal is n seen busy peeling and preparing a banana for eating by removing stringy bits, which are also kwn as Phloem bundles. 

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Much like most of humans, monkey also seems to be disgusted by  thres as it carefully removes each one of string and even throws m far away from itself. monkey also quickly gets rid of strings immediately when a couple of m fell on her little baby. 

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Netizens call monkey ‘intelligent’ 

Since shared, video has been viewed over 12 million times. With more than five lakh likes, video left netizens in awe. Some internet users could also relate to monkey as ticed that it ate banana just like humans do. Several users could t even stop gushing over part where monkey quickly removes stringy bits off her baby. 

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While one internet user wrote, “Is it just me, or is it also super interesting this monkey didn’t want stringy bits that landed on log re, so it picked it off and threw it on ground. So intelligent to have that sort of preference”. Ar user ded, “I love that she hates m so much she doesn’t even want that one string at end on TRUNK near her never mind on her banana”. 

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17:17 IST, June 22nd 2020