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I ask this both as a semi-serious question and lulz worthy "what if?", the "Monkey Business" DLC for Far Cry 3 adds in some humorous humiliations you can do to the best player on the other team if you win and are the highest scoring player on your team, one involves the title character of said DLC running in just before the losing player is about to get done in, saying while high on drugs he taught one of his monkeys how to pull the pins on grenades, before said monkey starts dropping live grenades from a tree above, causing everyone but the unlucky loosing team member to run away leaving the poor sod to his fate.

This makes me wonder a bit, aside from that whole scene being hysterically funny, could a primate of some kind, like a chimpanzee or a Capuchin monkey, have the necessary motor skills to figure out how to pull the pin and flip the spoon on a grenade?

My reasoning for how this could happen is that a grenade, to a monkey at least, might look like a piece of fruit, (especially the old WWII style "pineapple" grenade, some of which still exist and are used by factions in third world countries to this day) and might choose to nick the grenade from a box, on a table, or even right off a soldier's belt, and might in the course of trying to peel it open to try and eat it, pull the pin out, thinking it the ineditable part of the fruit and pulling it off (out), and flipping the spoon in the process.

Smelling the gunpowder burning in the grenade (do to primates having more acute senses of smell then us) might toss it away or simply drop it and run away, where ass the soldier he pilfered it from might come pick it up, not realizing the monkey managed to make the grenade live, and get blown up in the process.

Anyone who knows hand grenades also knows it takes a fair bit of force to pull the pin out of grenade, about 50 pounds if I'm correct, but most primates have very high power to weight ratios, especially chimps which are scary strong despite their unassuming sizes, so for a monkey to have the strength to pull out the pin doesn't seem to be that big of stretch of the imagination to me.

So what does everyone else think? Could it happen in real life, or only as a cliche lulzy joke in fiction?

I was really hoping for a better reaction out of this thread, are all of you so lame that you honestly waste your time with posts like "what?" and quoting other people saying it? Seriously, do us all a favor, if you can't add more then one sentence to a post, don't respond at all, savvy?

"Yeah... we're screwed now..."

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Amidoingitright?

No, no you're not.

Also this is the internet, an off-topic section no less, what did you expect? Riveting political and theological debates?

 Kilkrazy wrote:
This question can only be solved by giving the monkeys and the dolphins flame-throwers.

That's a good idea actually, but I gave the Dolphin a stogie instead, oh well, I did it for the lulz anyhow, so this entire "why did you post this" reaction is more or less invalid.

My money is on the monkeys, opposable thumbs are a huge advantage, also poo slinging = biological warfare.