An intruding monkey at a Sri Lankan electrical grid substation caused a general island-wide blackout on Sunday, government officials said. 'A monkey has come in contact with our grid transformer ...

Feb. 10 (UPI) --Officials in Sri Lanka said a monkey in the wrong place at the wrong time was to blame for a power blackout that affected the entire nation. Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody told ...

Sri Lanka will launch a nationwide census of nuisance wildlife, including monkeys and peacocks, as part of an effort to tackle the increasing threat to agriculture, the government said Wednesday.

Sri Lanka has begun a wildlife census to count monkeys, peacocks and giant squirrels, aiming to manage their populations as farmers complain of agricultural losses.

In 2023, the-then agricultural minister proposed exporting some 100,000 toque macaques to Chinese zoos, but the monkey business was abandoned following protests from environmentalists. Sri Lanka ...

Mrs Weerasekara delivered an insightful and timely speech on “Human Monkey Conflict in Sri Lanka and Strategies to Overcome the Challenge” highlighting the human-monkey conflict in Sri Lanka due to ...

Hikkaduwa Liyanage Prasantha Vinod (Sri Lanka) finds this serene scene of a young toque macaque ... Vinod spotted this young monkey sleeping between feeds and used a telephoto lens to frame the ...

A closer look at the Toque macaques living in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, and featured in this episode. Hector, a male toque macaque and leader of the temple troop in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka.

In 2023, the then agricultural minister proposed exporting some 100,000 toque macaques to Chinese zoos, but the monkey business was abandoned following protests from environmentalists. Sri Lanka ...

In 2023, the then agricultural minister proposed exporting some 100,000 toque macaques to Chinese zoos, but the monkey business was abandoned following protests from environmentalists. Sri Lanka ...