What does monkey see monkey do mean?

Probobly, it derives its origin from a story where a monkey steals a merchant's caps from his bundle while he is sleeping. The merchant on seeing the monkey wearing one of the caps from the bundle, is frustrated and throws his cap from his head in desperation. The monkey on seeing this, follows the example and the trader retrieves all his caps by this method. This probably, should explain the sentence, as the monkey blindly follows whatever it sees and does the same, and eventually gets tricked. It means that a foolish person will copy the foolish behaviour of another. I believe the phrase was coined because monkeys are such intelligent animals they will mimmic things that they see others do, hence Monkey see, monkey do. My mother-in-laws capuchin saw us using forks to grab food from the plates, so when we finished and left the plates with crumbs, she grabbed the fork and tried to do what we were doing by grabbing the fork and trying to put the crumbs on it! www.PetMonkeyInfo.com