Occasionally it finds ways to remind us of that fact.
The nationwide blackout came as temperatures in the country reached 90 Fahrenheit.
Engineers worked quickly to restore power to critical facilities like hospitals, but many households remained without electricity overnight.
A monkey in Sri Lanka is said to have caused a nationwide electrical blackout in Sri Lanka.Hikkaduwa Liyanage Prasantha Vinod/Natural History Museum, London
It seems that an imbalance in power caused cascading problems across the grid.
Sri Lanka is home to a large population as much of the country was historically blanketed in forest.
Deforestation hasoccurred rapidlyin recent decades as the country has grown in population.
Monkeys are known to terrorize towns across Sri Lanka, raiding them for food and destroying crops.
But hey, the monkeys were there first.
Some would argue it is the humans harming the apes, not the other way around.
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