Story of Five Monkeys and A Ladder



Story of five monkeys and a ladder, or I should say, experiment.

Five monkeys are put into a room.

There is a ladder in the middle of the room, and a banana on the top of the ladder.

For some times five of them stare at each other.

And... monkey being monkey. One of the monkey cannot stand the temptation of banana, he tries to climb the ladder and get the banana. And the other four are only looking at him.

When the monkey reached the top of the ladder, the sprinklers in the room are activated, and bath the four monkeys with cold water.

Since the banana was eaten, the banana on the ladder is replaced.

Then, another monkey wants to try to climb the ladder for the banana. The other four was showered with cold water again. Now they realized whenever a monkey tries to climb the ladder, the rest will get cold water.

Now, whenever anyone of them tries the ladder, the others would stop him and bet him up. To avoid getting sprinkled obviously.

After a while, no one is interested with the banana and the ladder anymore.


Then, one of the monkey is replaced with a new monkey.

The new guy sees the banana on top of the ladder, tries to reach for the ladder, and instantly grabbed by other four and beaten by them. For no reason, in his eye; but the other 4 know they would get sprinkled with cold water.

Another attempt, another beating.

After a while, the new monkey learned to not climb the ladder.


Then then then then, another old monkey is replaced with a new monkey, same event occurs, trying to reach for the banana, get beaten up by other 4 monkeys. The previous new monkey now join the beating, as he learned this is the way it should be done.

And the process continue, until all the first generation monkeys are all replaced. And when a new monkey trying to reach for the banana on top of the ladder, the others will beat him. Even when there is none of them was sprinkled with cold water before.

No one knows that when you reached the top of the ladder, the rest get a cold water bath. All they know is that if you reach for the ladder, others will beat you up. If you could ask one of the monkey why, they would most likely answer you "I don't know, this is how everybody has been doing since the beginning".

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