No more monkeys jumping on the power grid! A countrywide power outage that left many stuck without cool air during a sweltering hot day in Sri Lanka has been blamed on a rogue monkey who climbed into ...

Sri Lanka plunged into darkness on Sunday as a nationwide power outage caused massive losses to businesses and wiped millions ...

An intruding monkey has been blamed for sending an island offline after it entered an electrical power station and caused a nationwide blackout. At approximately 11:30am local time yesterday, a rogue ...

TL;DR: Sri Lanka's energy minister confirmed a nationwide power outage affecting 22 million people was caused by a monkey interacting with a grid transformer, leading to an imbalance. Sir Lanka's ...

Kenya had one of its most unexpected power outages when a single vervet monkey brought the country’s electricity supply to a halt. The small animal managed to sneak past security fencing at the Gitaru ...

Alejandro Zúñiga / The Tico Times. Howler monkeys, native to Costa Rica, are increasingly threatened by human activity. Traditionally known for swinging from branch to branch using their tails, these ...

COLOMBO, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout over ...