Cheeky monkey! Macaque grabs female tourist's breast
A cheeky little monkey appeared to be rather enamoured with one female tourist - apparently feeling her breasts as she attempts to laugh it off.
The woman is surrounded by the macaques at a wild animal park in central China's Henan province, and doesn't look too offended when one of them gets a little over-familiar.
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The picture has gone viral in China after being uploaded to their main social media site, Weibo.
According to the Daily Mail, one user commented: "Look at that woman [who was 'groped'], she was totally enjoying the moment!"
It's not the first time macaques have been now to get a bit over-zealous with tourists.
Back in may, a British tourist claimed she was sexually assaulted by Gibraltar's famous barbary macaques - and she did not find it amusing.
Melissa Hart, 23, travelled to the Rock on a day trip from Marbella.
She said two of the monkeys began pulling at her hair and clothes, as other tourists nearby laughed.
"I felt totally helpless as these two monkeys grabbed and pawed me in my most intimate areas," she told the Olive Press.
"Then, with a yank, one of them pulled my bikini top straight off."
Macaques have a very intricate social structure and hierarchy.
If a macaque of a lower level in the social chain has eaten berries and none are left for a higher-level macaque, then the one higher in status can, within this social organisation, remove the berries from the other monkey's mouth.
According to Wikipedia, aside from humans, the macaques are monkeys that are the most widespread primate genus, ranging from Japan to Afghanistan and, in the case of the barbary macaque, to North Africa and Southern Europe.
There are currently 23 recognised macaque species, including some of the monkeys best known to non-zoologists, such as the rhesus macaque, and the barbary macaque, a colony of which lives on the aforementioned Rock of Gibraltar.
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