Macaques SLAP Squirrels And Steal Their Food | Primates | BBC Earth

Jackfruit is a prized meal, but it can be hard to tell when they're ripe and ready to eat. These lion-tailed macaques in southern India have a crafty way of getting the tastiest morsels - stealing them from Malabar giant squirrels!

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[Blackshroom]

The way they slap is hilarious, it doesnt even look like a hard slap, more like hard tap

Squirrel looks confused as hell lmao

[GiveSic]

Squirrel: I have found the tastiest and ripest fruit
Macaque: You mean I found the tastiest ripest fruit
Squirrel: Who are y-
Macaque: *smack

[akumaisreal]

They slap them so casually. Like they're not even slapping to do damage they're just trying to annoy them away from the food lol

[Arashekhoeur]

Can't wait when the squirrel learn to lead them to bad fruits.

[MrArachnorod]

Imagine using this technique in grocery stores😂
Someone picks a ripe fruit and you walk over and slap the person until theyvleave the fruit behind😂😂😂

[jacoblepley]

The squirrel is like, “come on, why can’t we talk about it?”

[stephenpaul]

Just when you thought you seen every type of animal on earth
And this squirrel ive never seen he's huge and have a beautiful coat of fur.

[ViyabiSirathanongsil]

Can we all appreciate how patient and done with this shit the squirrel is.

[IWantToBelieve]

Wait till the squirrels catch on and pick out rotten fruit 😂

[reckneya]

Never before in my life have I found myself wanting to slap a monkey in the face so bad.

[gpugpugpu]

The craziest part of this is the trees that have bent the animals to their will and literally have the animals fighting over who gets to spread their seeds

[chriswilde]

The colours on those squirrels is unbelievable, never seen them before..

[neelima]

That was quite a lot of slaps for the poor squirrel..

[UhhhAreyouok]

So now im googling different species of squirrels because I've only seen gray, red, and ground squirrels. That squirrel is beautiful! 🤯

[breadman]

I love how the squirrel just doesnt know how to react, "well you arent a predator, but you keep hitting me?"

[shido]

No one going to talk about the coolest way of passing someone by? 0:09 imagine we could just jump over someone and look so cool in the process

[BigHandsome]

They could literally kill the squirrel but need them to find the fruit so they just slap them around

[sergiom]

Squirrel: Man, Cant we just share?
Macaque: **Slaps**
Squirrel: Dud..**SLAPPED**...e
Squirrel: dude come on lets sh....**SLAPPED**..
Squirrel: 👁👄👁....

[ChaiTea]

Squirrel after being slapped: *shocked Pikachu face*

[buddythecow]

“Hey could you grab me a jackfruit?”

“Yeah, one sec...

... EW there’s a squirrel on this one!”

“Just brush it off it oughta be fine.”