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Also on offer is sananga, a psychoactive eye drop that burns like habanero chilis, and Kambo, a drug made from the venom of the Amazonian giant monkey frog.
To say that it manages somehow to turn the giant monkey Kong into a Donald Trump-like figure sounds absurd, but it's not far from the truth.
Called the giant monkey frog in English, because it climbs high into the rainforest canopy, the kambô first sparked attention among foreign researchers decades ago.
At its core, you're still swiping to jump, slide and turn your way through paths to escape an angry giant monkey.
I passed creaking houses, sometimes seemingly propped up by ivy that was stained the colour of port wine by the local red sandstone, before heading uphill in front of a giant monkey puzzle tree.
The Monos are a unit of teenage guerrilla bandits, operating in a country very similar to Colombia or Bolivia — and apparently named after the Mono Grande, the mythical giant monkey for centuries rumoured to exist somewhere in South America.
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Reading "My Quest for the Yeti" (translated from the German by Peter Constantine), we never completely understand how an upright grizzly-type bear could be mistaken for a giant monkey-man in the first place.
And some of her shtick, such as when she advises filmmakers that the studio needs "less movies with giant monkeys, more movies with me," is not terribly inspired.
His images often depict solemnly still but emotionally charged scenarios, reminiscent of a less-weird Diane Arbus, a characteristic evident in his photo of a single, giant plush monkey smiling ghoulishly in front of a suburban American home.
But then all of that goes out of your head when giant glowing Monkeys start rising up out of the waves.
They're magnificent, in fact – more than a millennium's worth of fabulous Khmer sculpture, including an eight-armed Vishnu from the sixth or seventh century, giant wrestling monkeys carved from sandstone and practically an army of post-Angkorian Buddhas, many rescued from Angkor Wat.
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