Though Thursday’s Monkey Day holiday may encourage us homo sapiens to celebrate our primate cousins, it appears hanging with apes can be quite bananas — just ask one poor pedestrian who found herself battling a hoard of baboons while on a recent mountainside walk. 



It’s unclear what exactly sparked this monkey melee, one that first hit the web late last month, but whatever it was was that serious, prompting a group of five angry apes to sprint down a mountain and towards a woman walking on the shoulder of a nearby road.


While the woman tried to make a break for it, power walking away from the swarm of wild baboons, one member of their gang decided to escalate their already-tense encounter, standing on its hind legs and punching its newly minted foe.


The now-viral clip cut off in the height of the action, yet several Twitter users didn’t need a demonstration to know how, exactly, they’d fare if placed in this woman’s walking shoes.



While several confessed that they’d nope the f—k out of there as fast as they could — “Get off their block??” @elitelife_kd replied to a prompt asking what users would do if placed in the video’s high-specific predicament  — others desired to duke it out, detailing their specific plans of primate attack.


For @StevieDerrick_, this battle plan consisted of doing “what my mama taught me.” “If somebody puts their hands on you, handle your business,” they wrote.



“You gotta kick one of them shits hard asl to assert ya dominance,” added @kart3r, while @infernape_914 concocted an equally Looney Tunes plan of escape.


“Pull a grenade and plant a C4 on the highway, then somersault and crawl away,” they joked.


We can only hope that these monkeys learned a hard lesson about brawling — they may be the kings of the jungle, but they are most certainly not the king of the road.