Drunken Green Monkeys and Beach?

[Polish Falcon]

My daughter saw a show on the Animal Channel about Drunken Green Monkeys on a beach in Barbados.

 

Does anyone know where this beach is?

 

Thanks!

[Sunniebgi]

It would be interesting to know which show she was watching and on exactly which channel. Green Monkeys are in the wild, mainly. There are people who take the babies and keep them as pets. This would be the only way they would get any kind of alcohol (one would assume).

 

It's likely someone has one as a pet and fed them beer.. and thinks that it makes good TV (or bad depending on how you look at it.

 

On a Beach.. not sure that you would find them much on the beach in the wild, unless it's on a more seculuded spot than the regularly visited beaches.

[Polish Falcon]

The channel was "Animal Planet".

 

She says they eat fermented sugar cane.

They also steal drinks from sunbathers @ ??? beach.

[BoysSkiMom]

It's not exactly unheard of. At Turtle Beach on St. Kitts the monkeys come down from the jungle and steal drinks. Then they go back to sleep it off.

[Sunniebgi]

Well it really could be just about any beach. People do leave half consumed drinks on beachs as well as other places on the island (not just the locals, tourists as well) and fermented sugar cane wouldn't surprise me at all, since sugar cane is our main export industry and it's all over the island.

 

Don't assume that people are doing this to monkeys on purpose. Green Monkeys run wild in Barbados, so it can happen. I'm sure some film maker decided it was a terrible thing and has misrepresented it on worldwide television.

 

Just a thought.. but what if your dog or cat could drink out of a cup of beer at your next party..

[CaribbeanCrazy]

I saw something on this too. But it was St Kitts. It may have been a different show. I didn't know that there are wild monkeys in Barbados. Next time we are there I'll have to keep an eye out for some.

CaribbeanCrazy