A few of you may remember a recent blog entry where I mentioned how Prof. Ajeet Mathur, in a lecture in Oulu, gave the example of a monkey trained to wash the vessels at a Lorry roadside Dhaba for a payment of 2 bananas a day.
I just read, on Abe Tharakan's Blog, of monkeys in Indonesia being trained to pluck coconuts from the trees Kerala: Of monkeys and nuts. His last para in the entry was interesting:
"Once, during his frequent trips to coconut growing countries, Joseph Alapatt found that in Indonesia monkeys are trained to pluck coconuts. He requested the Minister concerned to send a squad of monkeys to Kerala on a trial basis. According to the article, the Minister replied "The labor leaders in Kerala would kill the monkeys as soon as the animals reached that state"!"
So much for monkeys replacing manpower in KERALA!
