When it comes to dental hygiene, these macaques could show humans a thing or two.
Astonishingly, monkeys teach their offspring how to floss - using human hair they discovered in their enclosure.
One baby seemed a particularly attentive learner and sat enthralled while its mother demonstrated the finer intricacies of cleaning its teeth.
Floss and go: A baby macaque monkey seems enthralled as its mother teaches it how to clean its teeth
Around 100 monkeys of a group of 250, who live in temple ruins at Lopburi, north of Bangkok,Thailand, have taken up flossing.
The habit was first spotted ten years ago and zoologists have slowly noticed more and more macaques, who eat crabs, learning the technique.
Quick learners: 100 of the 250 strong group have been seen flossing their teeth using human hair
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