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Originally Posted by Apnea_Addict
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DD: Looks like the video was pulled by BBC
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Also a beach swimming tame macaque
and a surface swimming sloth (not a primate so not related to monkeys or apes)
Scientists find monkeys who know how to fish - Yahoo! News
Apparently these same macaque monkeys will occasionally catch fish with their hands, as well. I thought they only ate mud crabs and plucked aquatic vegetation.
Capuchin monkeys of South America will use oyster shells to open fresh oysters in tidal mangroves, prying them off tree trunks and rocks to get the meat.
Chacma babboons living on coasts will wade out into marine shallows to gather shark eggs.
AFAIK, all monkeys can swim, but only Japanese macaques, long tailed crab-eating macaques (see above) and big-nosed proboscis monkeys will swim under water to gather food or escape predators (cats) or cross rivers; all other monkeys only surface-swim using doggie paddle AFAIK. Monkeys and apes will usually wade vertically (bipedally) when water is above the ankles, gorillas have been seen using depth-finder walking sticks in deeper water at the Ndoki swamp in Africa.
Apes generally avoid water deeper than hip height, especially moving river water.
