SINGAPORE: Calling it “the most absurd thing,” a woman tweeted that “a monkey grabbed my antidepressants from my bag, climbed up a tree, ate two and threw it back down on the ground.”
This occurred at the Botanic Gardens on Thursday (Feb 23), with Ms Chloe, who goes by gaga stan (੭˶•̀⤙•́˶)੭⋆·˚ ༘ *~♡@mummyhotline on Twitter, adding “I have reported this to the people in charge of the park n i hope d monkey is okay.”
“and i thought i had a new friend who wanted to chill w me,” she tweeted, posting a photo of the monkey.”
The monkey did not seem worse for the wear, and with the internet being the way it is, everyone seemed to get a big kick out of the whole incident, including Ms Chloe herself.
And, of course, memes were spawned.
A 2013 study showed that to help laboratory chimpanzees fight depression and trauma, antidepressants have been used. Results from the study, which took place in the Netherlands, had been astonishing.
“Suddenly, [the chimps] woke up. It was as if they were zombies in their enclosures and now they are happy, playing with each other. They are chimps again – that was really nice to see,” Dr Godelieve Kranendonk, a behavioural biologist leading the study at AAP, a rescue centre for animals in the Netherlands, told BBC News. /TISG
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