A group of wild monkeys raided a supermarket and made off with a haul of bananas in a bizarre hit-and-run theft in Thailand. The monkeys diverted from their normal foraging grounds in a nearby forest to hit a 7-11 and take what bananas they could.

On the lush, green Japanese island of Yakushima, two species of animals have struck up an unusual relationship seemingly out of a fable. The resident Japanese macaque monkeys and sika deer have developed a close, mutually beneficial inter-species bond.