“Monkey know what tree to climb.”
People size up a person or situation carefully before deciding how to act.
— Traditional Antigua & Barbuda Wisdom, Antigua & Barbuda
Source: Traditional Antiguan and Caribbean proverb, shared West Indian oral tradition, public-domain
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