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Thread #25903   Message #308512
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
29-Sep-00 - 06:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: New threat - 'attack monkeys'
Subject: RE: BS: New threat - 'attack monkeys'
Yes, Barbary apes are the one they have on Gibraltar and they are mean bastards. Those on the Rock have little or no fear of humans, thanks to various generations and nations of soldiers treating them as pets, and tourists treating them as photographic props. They will steal food from between your hand and your mouth, it must be decades since a piece of dropped food made it all the way to the ground. And they are not small, cute little things, they are bigger than cats, have 2inch long fangs that carry all manner of diseases and faces only a mother could love. There may be a comic aspect here, but they are scary buggers when seen close to, pushed in your face, I know what I'd be doing.....

LTS