As soon as you started researching apartments and real estate in Rio de Janeiro you most likely had numerous things in mind. First and foremost was likely the attractive beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana. Sipping chilled drinks from you penthouse holiday. Secondly, if you are savvy, you might have thought of the tourist attractions. Christ the Redeemer, the sugar loaf and most surely the crazy nights on the town in Lapa. This was most likely what you were thinking as soon as you started to cruise for sale ads in search of a permanent home in Brazil. But there was possibly something you didn't anticipate. Monkeys.