A rogue monkey allegedly sparked a nationwide power outage in Sri Lanka after finding its way into a grid transformer. AFP via Getty Images. The blackout hit around midday Sunday right as ...

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 the weekend that ...

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 the weekend that ...

A monkey in Sri Lanka is said to have caused a nationwide electrical blackout in Sri Lanka. Hikkaduwa Liyanage Prasantha Vinod/Natural History Museum, London As much as humans have excelled at ...

Sri Lanka faced a significant statewide power outage caused by a monkey entering a substation. The disruption lasted several hours, impacting millions and prioritizing critical facilities.

Sri Lanka has grappled with a struggling energy grid for years, and monkeys are making it worse. On Sunday at around 11:00 local time (12:30 AM EST), a nationwide blackout forced its 22 million ...

By Malaka Rodrigo COLOMBO — Monkeys were expected to be among the chief culprits identified as Sri Lanka carried out a nationwide survey on March 15 of crop-raiding animals. But in a small ...

These white monkeys are a color variant of the endangered purple-faced langur (Semnopithecus vetulus), also known as the purple-faced leaf monkey, found only in Sri Lanka. Purple-faced langurs ...

Some officials in Nepal are calling for mimicking a plan by Sri Lanka — now suspended — to export large numbers of rhesus macaques. The monkeys are seen as pests by farmers whose crops they ...