TL;DR: Sri Lanka's energy minister confirmed a nationwide power outage affecting 22 million people was caused by a monkey interacting with a grid transformer, leading to an imbalance. Sir Lanka's ...

No more monkeys jumping on the power grid! A countrywide power outage that left many stuck without cool air during a sweltering hot day in Sri Lanka has been blamed on a rogue monkey who climbed into ...

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 As much as humans have excelled at ...

Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout over the weekend that disrupted ...