To ask if you've driven through a safari park...

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Did the monkeys really try to eat your car? I'm driving a hire car until mine is fixed, and I'm not keen to return it with missing wipers etc. Is all that just a myth, or should I not do it?

we had a narrow escape in a hire car in Kruger SA. a giant elephant got really close but didn't tusk us or anything, just did a massive steaming poo in front of us.
we treated it as a roundabout and carried on

We've got annual passes to Knowsley as live five minutes from it and after our first encounter in the monkey/baboon area we always bypass it:)

To put it quite simply, they are little thugs!
And our car is ancient put was wrecked by the buggers.

Avoid with a hire car...

The car in front of us at Knowsley got destroyed -windscreen wipers, ariel, windscreen washer squirter thingys, rear bumper

My dad drove like a bat out of hell to get out of there -i'm surprised he didn't run any of the buggers over

I would never take a car in there again

LOL @ the monkey spunk.

We've had monkeys on the car at Woburn.

Many years ago, when they still had monkeys at West Midlands Safari Park we went on a family day out. We got away fairly lightly with the monkeys, they pulled out some of the trim from the back window which ended up trailing along the ground. My parents made me jump out of the car to pick it up... in the rhino enclosure.

We had the rubber window seals ripped off, which are surprisingly expensive to replace. I wouldn't go through it again.

Have seen a lion jump on a car bonnet. Two carloads of rangers arrived very quickly to get it off.

As a child my grandparents took myself and my sister to one the monkeys smashed the front windscreen one got a bit of wood and started banging on the windscreen grandad had to drive home with no windscreen as after it smashed he pushed it out so he could see where he was going my sister and were huddled under blankets in the back with my grandad saying oh its fine worst things happened in the war !! with my Nana glaring at him

I've just laughed so much at the monkey spunk one that the dog not only woke, she came over to look at the iPad!
I've driven my own car through once. It was new to us and the little buggers started trying to peel the roof trim off. Not too much damage but there's no way I would do it now in my nice shiny black Audi.

The Longleat monkeys are extremely organised. We had to stop when some little babies parked themselves in front of the car while the bigger ones climbed all over the back and roof. We were stuck there for a while, but thankfully they didn't do too much damage.

One of the funniest things I've ever seen was at Knowsley Safari Park when a car next to ours driven by a teenage girl and her mate had two baboons on the bonnet shagging like their lives depended on it. I was crying laughing.