Werner Herzog Impersonated A Vet To Seize 400 Monkeys From Traffickers

The climactic raft scene of Werner Herzog's *Aguirre, the Wrath of God* (1972) required roughly 400 small monkeys swarming Klaus Kinski's doomed raft. Herzog rented them from a local supplier in the Peruvian Amazon — who then double-crossed him by selling the entire shipment to animal traffickers planning to fly the monkeys to Miami. Herzog drove to the airport, claimed to be a veterinarian conducting pre-export health checks, talked his way to the cages, took physical custody of all 400 monkeys, drove them to the Aguirre set, filmed the scene, and afterwards released every one of them back into the wild. The story is documented by Herzog himself on the Anchor Bay 2001 DVD audio commentary for Aguirre, in Paul Cronin's interview collection *Herzog on Herzog* (Faber & Faber, 2001), and in Herzog's 1999 documentary *My Best Fiend*.

Sources: Werner Herzog audio commentary — *Aguirre, the Wrath of God* (Anchor Bay 2001 DVD), Paul Cronin — *Herzog on Herzog* (Faber & Faber 2001), Werner Herzog — *My Best Fiend* (1999 documentary)

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