Energy minister says monkey ‘came into contact with grid transformer’, causing hours-long outage in sweltering heat
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/10/total-chaos-monkey-blamed-for-nationwide-power-cut-in-sri-lanka
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Squirrels in North America and parts of Europe are the chaos gremlins, but the result is the same.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_disruptions_caused_by_squirrels
The article doesn’t say anything about how the monkey is doing, so I’m going to assume it’s fine.
I’m sad to say that ‘coming into contact’ with a grid transformer (enough to knock the whole system out) is usually not an activity that leaves much room for future health concerns for that monkey.
But it’s a monkey
