Hundreds of angry macaques stop traffic as they fight for food in Lopburi

[webfact]

Picture: Facebook Wisrut Suwanphak

 

Remarkable footage shows the moment rival gangs of macaques fight off for food in Lopburi, bringing traffic to a standstill.

 

Motorists had to wait in their vehicles for up to four minutes while the macaques brawled at a busy junction.

 

The video was posted by Facebook user Wisrut Suwanphak on July 25 and has since gone viral.

 

Lopburi is of course well known for its population of macaques, thousands of which roam the city freely and are typically a tourist attraction.

 

However, with the lack of tourists due to the pandemic, the macaques are going hungry because there are no tourists to feed them.

 

 

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[RichardColeman]

This is in the UK media now, not exactly a tourist magnet unless you're into monkey pooh !

[keith101]

A good time to start a sterilization program to cut the population .

[internationalism]

they suppose to be moved back to jungle

Edited July 27, 2021 by internationalism

[Kwasaki]

Planet of the apes coming soon. ????

[Dmaxdan]

Apparently, some of the macaques were seen holding placards complaining about the lengthy waiting time for vaccines...

[Artisi]

9 minutes ago, internationalism said:

there suppose to be moved back to jungle

Apparently they did some time back but the tourist business faulted and the shop owners complained - so what did they do , brought the disease ridden pests back again - only in Thailand ,  the hub of money....

[55Jay]

This could send the Q'anon End Times prophecy squad into orbit.  ????

[Gold Star]

The way things are going, I would not be surprised if the next relief plan for many of those that lost tourism jobs, to be retrained as monkey condom fitters.

[kotsak]

Not much has changed among homo sapiens, compared to those long distance cousins.. ????

[bkk6060]

Actually there is a big shortage of these type of macaque monkeys for Covid vaccines and other research.

They are very valuable in the right hands maybe corral them and send them off to a place that cares about developing proper vaccines to save human lives. 

 

 

The US government is investing heavily to breed more monkeys at the national facilities that house primates for biomedical research, Nature has learnt. The goal is to offset an ongoing shortage of these animals, which grew worse in 2020 as scientists tested scores of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments on primates before trials began in people.

Edited July 27, 2021 by bkk6060

[kickstart]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

 

Lopburi is of course well known for its population of macaques, thousands of which roam the city freely and are typically a tourist attraction.

Does ASEN now use the same calculators  as TOT ,when counting things , or they staff worked for the UK's red tops newspapers.

Having lived in this area for a few years now ,I can say they are not thousands of macaques in Lopburi ,a few hundred yes .

And why is it when you read something you know about it is often wrong.

[jak2002003]

7 hours ago, keith101 said:

A good time to start a sterilization program to cut the population .

Of humans I hope. 

[jak2002003]

4 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Actually there is a big shortage of these type of macaque monkeys for Covid vaccines and other research.

They are very valuable in the right hands maybe corral them and send them off to a place that cares about developing proper vaccines to save human lives. 

 

 

The US government is investing heavily to breed more monkeys at the national facilities that house primates for biomedical research, Nature has learnt. The goal is to offset an ongoing shortage of these animals, which grew worse in 2020 as scientists tested scores of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments on primates before trials began in people.

I would rather some of the old grumpy sex pat farangs are used to test the vaccines than the native wildlife. 

[Saraburi121]

Had friends back in my home country that saw this article in the news and few emails from them asking if I had monkey problems in my area!  Some even commented it "was disturbing."  My take it is no worse than two political parties going at it, probably a lot more civil.

[sammieuk1]

Maj-Gen Macaque won he had all the tear gas ????

[tonray]

17 hours ago, keith101 said:

A good time to start a sterilization program to cut the population .

Ok that takes care of government officers and army generals but when do we start with the monkeys ?

[elcaro]

11 hours ago, kickstart said:

Does ASEN now use the same calculators  as TOT ,when counting things , or they staff worked for the UK's red tops newspapers.

Having lived in this area for a few years now ,I can say they are not thousands of macaques in Lopburi ,a few hundred yes .

And why is it when you read something you know about it is often wrong.

Just looking at the video it is at least 1000 when the camera pans to the left and you can see them sitting on the fence. 

[Mickeymaus]

And I complain about Soi dogs... 

[davemos]

Monkeys now, people tomorrow?

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, keith101 said:

A good time to start a sterilization program to cut the population .

How will that help the macaques?

[Boomer6969]

19 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Planet of the apes coming soon. ????

I thought that where we had chosen to live.

[bbko]

They had the exact same story a year ago; 

 

[Rampant Rabbit]

rounde em up and shoot  the lot, all caused by fools  feeding them. This  will also send a  lesson to any sirvivors to stay away, they have no fear.

[Artisi]

11 minutes ago, bbko said:

They had the exact same story a year ago; 

 

It sell advertising....... 

Edited July 28, 2021 by Artisi

[Peterphuket]

20 hours ago, keith101 said:

A good time to start a sterilization program to cut the population .

Ha, ha, ha, LOL, like they have done with the dogs.

[Peterphuket]

It's getting to be a real plague.

Even in Hua hin when you like to get an overview of the city.

From time to time I like to visit Khao hin lek, a nice view but impossible now because many macacs.

[MrJ2U]

...... Next on the list for Thailand.

Order more rabies vaccines.

[dunroaming]

20 hours ago, kickstart said:

Does ASEN now use the same calculators  as TOT ,when counting things , or they staff worked for the UK's red tops newspapers.

Having lived in this area for a few years now ,I can say they are not thousands of macaques in Lopburi ,a few hundred yes .

And why is it when you read something you know about it is often wrong.

Reason would be that, reporting that "there are a few hundred macaques roaming the streets of Lopburi", would probably just get a shrug of the shoulders, whereas "thousands" would likely produce a "Wow!" or two.  It's all about grabbing the readers attention, truth doesn't really matter, as we all know.