The monkey bites back: Trainer who beat his animals receives taste of his own medicine
If only he’d remembered the old expression ‘monkey see, monkey do’.
When this animal trainer handed out a beating to one of his performing animals, he quickly found himself on the receiving end of a revenge attack that saw him being scratched, bitten and hit with his own stick.
The man works at a market in Sizhou, China, where he has taught three monkeys to ride bicycles.
But after he thrashed one, the animals struck back.
One twisted his ear, then another sank its teeth into his head.
A third monkey snatched up the trainer’s cane and beat him over the head until the stick broke.
The man said: ‘They were once wild and these performances don’t always come naturally to them.
‘They may have built up some feelings of hatred towards me.’
Police are investigating allegations of animal cruelty.
