Footage of 'snow monkey acrobats' goes viral

Video footage of a troop of monkeys walking across electric wires in snow-covered Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, has gone viral on Twitter.The clip, played more than 900,000 times as of Thursday afternoon, shows around 20 snow monkeys walking on the wires in a line as if they were performing as circus acrobats.The monkeys were videoed traversing a snow-covered area by holding a wire above their head while walking tightrope-style on another cable. They were apparently heading in the direction of some forest near a residential area.The scene was filmed at home on Monday by the mother …READ FULL ARTICLE