A Baboon at Knowsley Safari Park, in Merseyside
It looks like a scene out of a science-fiction film – a gigantic mutant baboon effortlessly crushing a car with its fist. Run for your lives!!
Fear not, it’s only an optical illusion.
If you look closely enough, you’ll notice that the monkey is in fact precariously balancing on the car’s windscreen with one of its hand held outstretched.
Chez Owen, schoolteacher from Barrow Ford in Lancashire took the photo after a family visit to Knowsley Safari Park in Merseyside. He couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw the results.
Split second timing, together with the angle of the shot created an altogether different picture from the one the family actually enjoyed. Thank goodness for that!
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Mister Williams
March 28, 2011
I love reading your blog because it is usually brilliantly written, beautifully composed, compassionate, interesting, thought-provoking and wise.
This, however, is just a big monkey picture and would really be at home on a more witless, idiotic site – such as mine own (http://themusingsofmisterwilliams.blogspot.com/) !!!
Watch it, Tanna – our blogs collide!!
xx
urbanprimate
March 28, 2011
Ha ha, Mister Williams, good to hear from you.
Yes I knew it would prompt a reaction and that’s the point isn’t it – to get people talking? It could also be the fact that I’ve just finished an overnight shift at the BBC and my brain couldn’t cope with writing a complex piece for the site.
I thought this picture was definitely worth marking – it certainly made me do a double take!
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Christian Bulmer
March 28, 2011
Not as impressive but still hilarious monkey business from my visit to knowsley safari park 😀
urbanprimate
March 28, 2011
Oh Christian, your schoolboy humour I’m sure will be enjoyed by hundreds of men out there. I am shaking my head, but I am not in the least bit surprised. Out of all the photographs I took of primates in Africa last year, it was always the pictures of apes with ‘hard ons’ that got the most reaction from my male mates. What can I say?!
A
Chris Cope
March 28, 2011
When I was a boy growing up in Texas my family visited a safari park and the car was attacked by baboons, who shredded the vehicle’s vinyl roof. My father loves to tell the story of explaining the next day to his insurance agent that the car needed repair because of monkey attack.
urbanprimate
March 28, 2011
Hey Chris, Good to hear from you.
Love your story, and I wish I could have seen the insurance guy’s face – brilliant!
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