A car full of tourists were left laughing hysterically when a monkey hitched a ride on the hood of their vehicle and proceeded to do something quite unexpected.
The monkey ripped off the window washer jet, seemed to chew on it and broke it apart. Moments later it slid over to the other window washer jet and tore it off, too, prompting even more laughter from Laura Rivers and her fellow occupants.
The incident occurred Sunday at the Longleat Safari and Adventure Park in Wiltshire, England, while Rivers and her group drove through the monkey enclosure.
“When going through the monkey enclosure all the monkeys were jumping on the cars and taking a ride,” Rivers told USA Today/For The Win Outdoors. “There were signs saying that monkeys may damage cars, pulling off window wipers and spoilers. At the start we had no monkeys on the car at all, and I just happened to film at the perfect moment.”
It was certainly a laughable moment:
“The monkey jumped onto the bonnet of the car and more or less straightaway ripped off the window washer jet; we didn’t expect it at all,” Rivers told For The Win Outdoors. “The monkey sat there and took the jet apart in front of us like it was teasing us, then went straight over to the other one and ripped that one off as well.”
The Longleat Safari and Adventure Park opened in 1966 as the first drive-through safari park outside Africa.
The monkeys, known as rhesus macaques, are “highly intelligient, highly inquisitive and highly mischievous,” the park’s website states accurately. Further, it says the monkey drive-through is “not for the faint of heart or new of car!”
That also proved accurate for this group of tourists.
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“The car belonged to my fiancé who is luckily a mechanic and can buy the new parts and refit them,” Rivers told For The Win Outdoors. “In the car was me, my fiancé, our daughter, my sister and her partner. We couldn’t stop laughing for the rest of the day, and still laugh about it now.”
Photo courtesy of ViralHog.