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.
similar story out of osaka japan of those famous deers that you can hand fed.
they are eating bonsai trees now.
[insert politically incorrect and sure to be zotted punchline that mentions election day in Philadelphia]
Yes. Also, dress up as Batman while doing it because the internet would lap it up.
And male monkeys walk around aroused half the timeYou might be confusing that with Martin Luther King Blvd. USA
Good friend at work some years back. He’s from Thailand. Remembers the Japanese marching in uncontested in 1941. Even today you are liable for execution if you are in possession of a single round of Ammo.
So the gummint there would have to do it.
“totally out of character for the monkeys”
Monkeys don’t have character. This is what monkeys do!
Compare and contrast:
Monkeys in Thailand fighting over a banana.
Shoppers in America fighting over Goods in Walmart now................
Me too. Monkies are nasty monsters.
Remind me of leftists.
Always wanting something from someone else and never looking twice at something needing to be done, except to look for someone else to do it for them.
They tear and rip each other to shreds for the lone banana that will only help one for the moment.
Ape together strong!
A similar situation was seen at a Costco over TP recently
With enough starving monkeys, and enough typewriters, one of them will type out "just hand over the food, b***."
We have a trip booked to Venice in August. Hope the streets are still as empty. lol
When this is all over there are going to be travel bargains up the wazoo.
Mark to watch
Yeah. We’re watching right now to book a trip to Ireland.
Seriously, parts of the video look like the end of the world movies, no movement, wind blowing trash around. Very creepy.
When do the monkeys start going after people and attacking them? I want to see what happens if that banana had been in someone’s hands.
Holy cow.
And yet just a mere three weeks ago, this story came out...
Venice has come up with a latest strategy to curb over-tourism
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