Released 2009-06-01

Chlorocebus pygerythrus

Vervets are abundant in the rest areas of Tanzania's national parks. Quick learners, they have long associated human gathering grounds with food, and they will work cooperatively to aquire such food. This one, apparently sated, was content to watch while seven or eight of its brethren gathered around a picnic table at which two women were sharing a lunch of fried chicken. Most of the monkeys approached the women from one side, attracting and holding the women's attention, while a lone vervet snuck up from the other side, dashed across the table -- grabbing a chicken leg on the way -- and all but flew off the other side. The women barely knew what thief had hit them.

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