Lopburi: You sorted "Godzilla" - now what about the hordes of other monkeys causing damage and injury?

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

An online post reported on by Daily News spoke of the hordes of monkeys that roam free in Lopburi in the center of Thailand.

 

The town is well known as something of a tourist attraction because of the number of monkeys. They even hold a special monkey feast once a year. 

 

Ask any Thai about Lopburi and they will mention monkeys.

 

But residents are furious that the town is overrun causing damage to property and injury to people.

 

It comes a week after the National Parks Authority made a song and dance about rescuing one macaque called Godzilla who was chained up and overweight at a Minburi market in Bangkok.

 

The message now was loud and clear to the parks' authority: Great about Godzilla - now what about us?

 

The post specifically mentioned that monkeys had taken over disused buildings and were a constant annoyance. 

 

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[Phuketshrew]

Planet of the Apes - I wonder who will come out on top?

[Surelynot]

1 minute ago, Phuketshrew said:

Planet of the Apes - I wonder who will come out on top?

China

[JoePai]

Try rat poison, that should work

[PatOngo]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

But residents are furious that the town is overrun causing damage to property and injury to people.

Well do something about it! Who's smarter, the monkeys or the residents?

[RichardColeman]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The message now was loud and clear to the parks' authority: Great about Godzilla - now what about us?

Guess the authority response was : 

 

[ChrisY1]

Ship them to Myanmar....they can train as soldiers!

[pacovl46]

I hate this type of monkey. They used to be around the Haew Suwat waterfall area in Khao Yai as well back in 2002 and they were quite aggressive. When I went back there in 2008 they were gone, don’t know what they did to them. You can still find them around the first view point, though.

[pacovl46]

2 hours ago, JoePai said:

Try rat poison, that should work

Rat poison is a truly evil way, it’s extremely painful and it takes forever! Speaks volumes about your character! 

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

Planet of the Apes - I wonder who will come out on top?

That's a tough one.

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Well do something about it! Who's smarter, the monkeys or the residents?

I got suspended for giving that answer before, so I'll refrain this time.

[digger70]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

hordes of monkeys

They are Vermin and the people think it's funny to feed them disease carrying destroying animals.they are on the same par as Soi dogs . Cull them All.

[Damrongsak]

High level Parks Authority officials are meeting to discuss a solution.

 

[brianthainess]

Impose a 1,000 B fine for feeding them, like Koh Chang. they still manage to get into closed caged bins though, and will steal fruit left unattended even from restaurants. Are squirrels protected too? coz someone up the road has one in a small cage for their entertainment. Sad people they are.

[canopy]

The population is a function of how much they are being fed. As long as the mindset is we must feed all these poor starving creatures the population will continue to grow without limit. When the artificial food sources go away, so will the monkeys. If the residents cared, that's something they could work on.