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Escaped Monkey Caught and The Truth About Bugs and Light

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

An escaped UK monkey was brought home thanks to peanuts and Yorkshire pudding and are bugs REALLY attracted to light at night? The evidence would suggest yes, but we’ll bring you some details. Plus, on this day in history, a major 19th century war comes to an end. Escaped Monkey (Sky News) Bugs and Light (AP News) (Nature) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Instagram - Facebook  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome, welcome. Once again, it's another edition of Cool Stuff Ride. Hel, Marcus Paff and Reggie

0:35.1

Rizzou coming at you on today's episode,

0:37.7

an escaped UK monkey brought home, thanks to peanuts and Yorkshire pudding.

0:43.0

Are bugs really attracted to light at night?

0:46.0

Well, the evidence would suggest obviously yes, but we'll bring you some more details on that.

0:50.1

And on this day in history, a major 19th century war comes to an end.

0:55.9

That's coming up on Cool Stuff Ride Home.

0:59.2

Per a Sky News report, a Japanese macaque, affectionately known as King Osie Kong, made a break

1:04.6

from its enclosure at Highland Wildlife Park in the UK a little over a week ago.

1:09.0

The park is located near King O.C. Scotland,

1:10.9

and thus the clever nickname, a search operation was launched in Honshu, that's his real name,

1:16.7

was eventually captured on Thursday after being spotted eating from a bird feeder in a garden

1:21.3

less than two miles from the park. It's believed he might have been enticed by some Yorkshire

1:25.1

pudding left out overnight for the birds.

1:28.0

Stephanie Bunyan, the person who alerted authorities to Honshu's presence in her yard,

1:32.0

while she told the guardian that in addition to the peanuts in her bird feeders, she had also

1:36.1

left out the aforementioned Yorkshire pudding, which was gone by the morning.

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