Clever monkey

BACHOK: "Hitam", a two-year-old short-tailed macaque picks things up easily, literally. Besides being trained to pluck coconuts, the cute little monkey owned by a Bachok District Council (MDB) employee has been taught to pick up litter and put them in a waste basket.

Its owner, Zulkifl Mamati, 42, said: "Hitam is a clever monkey and I taught it to pick up litter just to make it different from other monkeys."The monkey had actually been entered for the "clever monkey" category in a competition but it was cancelled as Hitam was the only entry.