beruk gatal
Saw this piece in the news today. Read it, it’s funny.
KEMAMAN: Villagers in Kampung Pangkalan Binjai here are not amused by the antics of a group of macaques which hassle only the women folk.
Frustrated villagers call the apes “beruk gatal” (cheeky apes) and are laying traps to catch them. The villagers said the monkeys had attacked eight women in recent months, apart from stealing food. They would flee when they see men.
The monkeys timed their invasion into the houses at hours when the men were out at work.
Grandmother Mariam Jusoh said the apes had tried to attack her several times and had destroyed many of her pineapple crop.
The 72-year-old said the animals were big and aggressive and they have sharp claws. Attempts to just shoo away the animals were futile. “These animals enter our homes and ransack for food, littering the kitchen floor,” she said.
A mother of three, Maimunah Hassan, 43, encountered these apes when she was returning home from a grocery shop last week.
She heard wolf whistles and turned around, assuming some youngsters were being rude.
“I was startled to see a group of apes heading toward me,” she related.
She started to run and the apes pursued her. She managed to enter the house without getting hurt.
Terengganu Wildlife and National Park director Rozidan Md Yasin said the department had received numerous complaints about these apes. “They are from the mangrove areas and jungles. The ones disturbing the women were probably once reared by humans. Once they are released back into the wild, they might look for women again, maybe because they were fed by women when held captive,” he said. [source]
Wolf whistle. I didn’t know apes can wolf-whistle. I wonder where did they learn that from. I guess it must be from their closest cousins, the Mat Rempits or perhaps some of the politicians that went on national tv some weeks back.
“Feeeewittttt! ouhh woo ooh uhuhu”.
Man, that had me in stitches.
Must be heck of a boner for that grandma who made this headline. I mean, she was expecting some ‘youngsters’ from that wolf whistle, but it turned out to be apes. I don’t think it would be flattering for most women when they pique interests from apes. I mean, can you imagine that? Some hairy shit monkey finds you attractive and would like to make you his wife? Goddamn!
And by the way, I don’t think ‘beruk gatal‘ should be translated as ‘cheeky monkey’… In my opinion, ‘cheeky’ is usually associated to insolent little tykes or cute petite girls. But when a group of monkeys wolf whistle a defenseless old woman, you call them dirty old men politicians ‘horny monkeys’, or ‘lecherous apes’.

