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Take a break and watch this monkey's startled response to a magic trick

Monkey magic.

MONKEYS LOVE MAGIC tricks, it turns out.

Not just monkeys, in fact – even great apes have been known to appreciate the simplicity of a well performed piece of professional trickery….

Dan Zaleski / YouTube

The above clip was posted back in December – but another one, of a bored-then-startled monkey has been doing the rounds of the internet in the last few days.

Check out the Vine from America’s Funniest Home Videos:
https://vine.co/v/iwjHthlamZO

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    Mar 22nd 2016, 12:01 PM

    Some much needed light relief

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    Mar 22nd 2016, 1:44 PM

    Just goes to show that we shouldn’t be locking them up for our own amusement. poor thing.

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    Mar 22nd 2016, 2:10 PM

    So I won’t get started about lab test apes.

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    Mar 22nd 2016, 12:17 PM

    Just shows what intelligent creatures those baboons are.Pity some get eaten by humans in parts of East Africa.

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    Mar 22nd 2016, 1:09 PM

    It’s an orangutan.

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    Mar 22nd 2016, 1:27 PM

    Looks like a baboon to me

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    Mar 22nd 2016, 6:29 PM

    Apologies, I was watching that on my mobile earlier and I didn’t realise there was another video, just watched the orangutan one, and missed the baboon one below it that I’m watching now on my desktop. -SST aka The Pope.

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    Mar 22nd 2016, 12:17 PM

    Why would you “Need a Replay” as a GIF when the Vine Video loops anyway … Seriously?

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    Mar 22nd 2016, 6:33 PM

    Never look a gif horse in the mouth.

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    Mar 22nd 2016, 12:25 PM

    Pity they didn’t run for election in this country.

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    Mar 22nd 2016, 12:31 PM

    Liked it better when I first saw it about 6 months ago.

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    Mar 22nd 2016, 12:10 PM

    Our bitter loyalist friend,lol.

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    Mar 22nd 2016, 3:10 PM

    He dropped it out under his leg. I saw how it was done straight away!!!!

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