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.
They were pretty bad in Cambodia too, especially around Angkor Wat.
“Looks like the perfect time to go, it the country were not locked down. 8>)”
Ends up the anti malaria drug I was taking kills Corona virus.
Where are the philippino chefs when you need them?
LOL! Really!...........................
Just wait till he little buggers decide human children are defenseless and easy prey....
In the Philippines?.................[Filipino]..........
They will go cannibal in a week.....................
I always mess up the spelling.
Daniel Webster was a wack job. People could spell as they pleased before he invented that tyrannical book of his.
“Death by Monkeys”
Could be worse...could be “hordes of starving monks seen storming the streets”..
Again, not much difference in human and primate nature.
Ben Franklin wanted to change the way Americans spelled, VS England, by reducing the alphabet to about 15 characters and all words would be spelled phonetically..........his idea didn’t catch on, unfortunately...............BUT it seems TEXTING has accomplished what he could not.............
This would be a great time to use cannon fired nets, round them up and transport them hundreds of miles into the bush.
Extremes on either end of the scale usually bring out complaints. Human nature I guess.
12,000 monkeys!...........................(that was a good movie, though)...............
You had coronavirus?
It an even better time for 12 gauge shotguns.
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