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One monkey runs off with a romantic momento..

The likelihood of these diners sitting down to enjoy a quiet intimate meal for Valentine's Day was always going to be a big ask.

The prospect of romance was soon replaced with antics of mayhem when the excited troop of macaque monkeys at Longleat Safari Park turned the candlelight supper into a bunfight.

Within seconds of setting up the special romantic banquet complete with red roses and candelabra in their enclosure at the Wiltshire attraction, the guests had stripped the table bare and made off with the contents.