Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine July 2019 | Page 255

“I think these monkeys know just what
they are doing. For about three years our
ackee tree has been bearing fruits and we
can’t tell you how they taste because of the
monkeys.” - Mikey, St. Andrew
“My sister has cats and they would
always be taunting them and pulling
their tails. Sometimes they would
even pick them up by the tails and
fling them!” - Taurean, St. Philip
“A farmer planted some stuff and put up a
scarecrow to keep the monkeys away. At
first they avoided it, but eventually the male
approached it. He came up to it, looked at
it, and touched it. When he realized it was
fake, he snatched it out of the ground, beat
it up, and dumped it. When the neighbour
asked the farmer why he didn’t retaliate,
he asked, ‘Do you see what they did to the
scarecrow?’” - F loyd, Christ Churc h
Trespassing in my patio
PC: Erskine Headley
On the fence
PC: Kimberley Hoyte
“I never got too close to them because
if you threw rocks at them they tended
to respond in kind. As well, the monkey
population in the village was relatively
small and fluid. They didn’t stay in one
location too long and moved on to other
neighbouring properties in search of
fruits and other foods!” - Victor, St. Joseph
“A friend related how she threw a
stone at the creatures and when
she awoke the next morning all of
the carrots she had growing in her
backyard were heaped in a pile at
her back door.” - Sonia, St. George
“On mornings you would hear them
running around on the roof. My sister
would tell me it was the birds because I
was so afraid of them!” - Holly, St. John
What are you looking at?
PC: Tasha Small
Off to my house
PC: Kimberley Hoyte