Posted on 03/16/2020 8:23:23 PM PDT by hapnHal
Tourism is down in the ancient city of Lopburi, and the local monkeys are going ape. Rival gangs of macaques brawl in the streets of Thailand.
In one of the more unusual incidents being attributed to the new coronavirus outbreak, a turf war between dozens of street monkeys and temple monkeys broke out in Thailand's historic city of Lopburi on Thursday (March 12).
According to city residents, the furry fracas likely resulted from a sharp dip in tourism to the 800-year-old city — and thus a dip in free food offerings to thousands of local monkeys."It’s the summer so usually we see a lot of tourists, but now because of the outbreak there's so few that the markets are very quiet," Sasaluk Rattanachai, who posted a video of the brawl online, told Thai news site Khaosod English. "Not enough tourists come to leave food for the monkeys at [the temple].
Thousands of crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis) live in Lopburi and the nearby Phra Prang Sam Yot temple complex, which dates to the 13th century. Both groups are used to being fed human food by the hundreds of tourists who visit the site every day.
The city even hosts an annual Monkey Buffet Festival, where visitors construct elaborate towers of fruits and vegetables for the temple monkeys to feast on.
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I don’t know about choreography and monkeys, but Inspector Closeau told the organ grinder he needed a license for the filthy little minkey. :)
ROFLOL!
They'd better watch out for those dining tables with the holes in the center, particularly if there are sets of chopsticks and a hammer and chisel nearby.
I have personally been attacked by the Lopburi macaques. Ahole creatures
LOL
ROFL!!!!
lol
ROFL!
It's how war began.
Should never started feeding them, they would’ve survived just fine as designed. Now they suffer. Too sad.
First word of first sentence; Tourists
Send them to a Chinese “wet market”.
Send them to a Chinese “wet market”.
First locusts, now monkeys. Hey, hey!
Any monoliths nearby? Could get very ugly.
Call PETA
Simians under Socialism!
I’ve read that when speed, agility, teeth, and claws are factored into a contest, a 10 lb. monkey is an equal match for a 170 lb. man.
At least no one has given a monkey a loaded AK 47 yet. Cheetah the chimp has one-up on the Thai local street monkeys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V3oT7BRiWo
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