Posted on 03/12/2020 6:56:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
The normally well-fed primates had no food after coronavirus fears left the normally busy streets in Thailand completely empty of tourists....
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Hundreds of starving monkeys fought over a single banana that was left in the street, as tourists who regularly feed them shun Thailand.
The normally well-fed primates swarmed across a street in Lopubri, central Thailand, after they spotted a fellow monkey holding a banana.
A clip showed the primates giving chase to the unlucky monkey, who was doing his best to stay ahead of the pack.
But, it took a sinister turn as they started to shriek and fight over the measly fruit.
The monkeys are then seen jumping over one another and ferociously grabbing at each other as the battle for the banana escalated.
Bystanders were stunned and said the behaviour was totally out of character for the monkeys.
Onlooker Sasaluk Rattanchai, who filmed the banana brawl, said: “They looked more like wild dogs than monkeys. They went crazy for the single piece of food. I’ve never seen them this aggressive.”
She added: “I think the monkeys were very, very hungry.
“There’s normally a lot of tourists here to feed the monkeys but now there are not as many, because of the coronavirus .”
Lopburi is a popular tourist destination, where visitors typically feed the thousands of monkeys who live near temples in the city.
Local media claimed the hundreds of monkeys belonged to two rival gangs and had been squabbling over food as tourist numbers to the country plummeted.
‘Not my circus, not my monkeys’
A good friend of mine was visiting Thailamd last month. He said the planes coming and going were nearly empty then.
Primate and human nature do not vary that much.
Spot on. When the end comes we are the monkey’s!
Coming soon to a human population near you.
If you prick us do we not bleed. If you quarantine us do we not starve.
“Hordes of starving monkeys” sounds like a punk band.
I love that cartoon. Have frequently shared it.
The article sounds like Black Friday shoppers.
And male monkeys walk around aroused half the time. It’s kind of gross.
Wait, wait, wait. According to CNN only white men, and not transgendered "men", who are NRA members, and live in flyover country behave badly.
This will go down as the Battle of the Bananas
Now excuse me while I go back to watching my 401k go to zero.
They’ve had a lot of rain, I see..................
I hate monkeys. It would be pleasing to see them die in hordes.
Have you seen the ad that they’ve stuck into the live feed?
“When the emergency is over, book your stay with...., help our city”.
So sad.
Looks like the perfect time to go, it the country were not locked down. 8>)
I just got out in time.
Left Feb. 26th to Seoul then USA after 42 days there and Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
What’s funny is that before all this, they were lamenting that places like Venice were suffering from “Over-Tourism”.
A perfect example of what happens when a society becomes dependent on the hand outs from others (IE socialism and government).
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