What can I do for if I live a place with many monkeys steal my stuff?
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[–]Only71Genders 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (2 children)
I thought this was a racist troll post, but since it isn't: can't people just put decon pellets in food they leave out? Like we do for rats. Or is it not effective on monkeys.
[–]therium 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
The poison pellets have to be sized for a monkey. So if you put out rat poison, the monkeys can eat it all day and nothing will happen to them. The poison only works if it reaches a certain level per kg of body weight. So rat and mouse poison pellets have different amounts of poison in them due to the fact they target different sized creatures.
[–]Only71Genders 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
It seems like they are strong enough to kill dogs, which got them banned in some areas, but maybe monkeys metabolize them differently? Or have a diet that keeps their blood coagulating so the poison doesn't kill them as easily? But I'm sure you are right that much more poison would be required than a couple pellets. They would probably have to eat a ton of poisoned food to get to the same level that a rat would get to off of just a few pellets. And they are smart so probably wouldn't go for it as easily. Bet a pellet gun would do the trick though...
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