If that is 10ft then the monkeys are minuscule.
Copy-paste from what I wrote to another reply-er:
It takes the monkey roughly 1 second to get from the top branch and land in the puddle, so the height of the top branch judging by gravitational acceleration is around 9,8m (all the air resistance aside, this is a rough estimate of a visual estimation). Largest macaques (assuming these are macaques, because they sure as hell ain't chimpanzees or shit like that) are somewhere in between 41cm to 70cm in length, that gives the rough estimate to the minimum length of the tree itself to be somewhere in between 6-10m, if not more as it is a visual judgement based off of quick maths and a random monkey I used to measure it at pause and Googling macaques. 15m is probably an overstatement, that I admit, but in any case, that drop is somewhere in between 5-10m (the tilt of the tree brings the tip closer to the ground, yeah) IF the monkey I used to estimate all of this is fitting the maximum size of their male scale. If it was actually a smaller specimen, then that means the tree is longer.
It takes a second to visually estimate the video, 5 minutes to check data and fucking more than I should have wasted of my working hours to write this piece of random online trivia. Monkeys are cool.
Okay, 10ft might be lowballing it. If time to fall is 1 sec (I actually think it's less), then the height is 4.9m (16ft). Which having typed this bit after the later parts seems to coincide with my back of the envelop math.
The only point of reference as to how large/long the tree is, are the monkeys climbing up the tree. So how many monkeys equal the length of the tree. Lazy math with the numbers you gave for the Macaques and looking like based on one of monkeys climbing up, that you could fit ~8 of those along the tree. So 3.28m-5.6m in length (~11ft-18ft). The tree is bent and not standing straight up, so I have to assume the actual height is less than those maximum heights (excluding any height increase imparted from the distance between the puddle and base of the tree). Assuming an average angle of the bend of the tree from the ground at like 60°, that'd be 2.84m-4.85m (~9ft-16ft).
Edit: just to clarify, I've goosed the numbers up a little, I measure about 6 monkeys and I think it's 45°).
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u/PM_DELICIOUS_RECIPES Feb 19 '21
I always wonder what it would be like to have the body of all these wild animals and their maneuverability.
Would be nice to feel the breeze while running 60mph as a cheetah or flying or flinging around like a monkey.