Police Friday rounded up 78 truants inside the Dusit Zoo.

Following tips-off, police raided the zoo and arrests the students from 13 schools.

Police said 34 of them are girls.

Their teachers or parents were contacted to pick them up at the Dusit police station.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/30103...ts-in-Dusit-Zoo

-- The Nation 29/05/09

look like the zoo owner missed a payment cause there are many more in mkb or any other mall.

The kids get a better education at the zoo than at their schools. A little like Ferris Buehler's Day Off.

but why are 78 kids at a zoo ? , most tauants just hang around the streets and shopping malls, not go on educational visits lol

Hi,

Would it be possible to add an option to receive selected news by mail ?

I mean, who really want to read this ?!

Thanks !

Wasn't that the number of elephants they found in Bangkok?

It's good to know that this problem is being addressed. These are the first steps toward full-fledged delinquency. Next step is criminals.

Perhaps they were learning to talk to the animals !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xdrkm-3Mgo

Naughty little monkeys weren't they.

I love it, the police say 34 were girls hahaha and who were the other 34, Aliens ?

Awwwww so sweet, Thai boys taking their girl friends for a trip to the zoo. 1 2 3 awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Is that where the baby Panda is?

They also found, one monkey, one elephant and 5 goldfish, after the arrests the number of visitors decreased by 75% and autorities are now monitoring the situation

Is that where the baby Panda is?

Noahvail, BabyPanda now is having serious issues with the Immigration Boys, it's seems his Visa needs "adjustments" (source: http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/1447...ay-of-panda-cub ) ....i am wondering how much the BiB asked for the release of each student...they never miss a chance to "round up" their incomes eh?

I love it, the police say 34 were girls hahaha and who were the other 34, Aliens ?

Awwwww so sweet, Thai boys taking their girl friends for a trip to the zoo. 1 2 3 awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Then to short time hotel?

Hummm we used to go to the lake and get drunk when we skipped school, those kids deserve an 'A' for the day for doing something constructive.

That's some school spirit. I'm in awe of their organizational skills. In my day, the 5 or 7 stoners would just head off to go get wasted. I'm sort of impressed. Hardly juvenile delinquents and most likely wanting to see the baby panda. Good on them.

The story was also reported last night on Thai TV.

The story was also reported last night on Thai TV.

The Pandas are at Chiang Mai zoo.

Hummm we used to go to the lake and get drunk when we skipped school, those kids deserve an 'A' for the day for doing something constructive.

There's a lake at the Dusit Zoo, and you can buy beer.

Their Classroom and the Zoo doesn't look and feel different!! They msut have thought they were still in class LOL

Never got rounded up by the police in my day when dodging school

Perhaps they were part of this study

http://www.startribune.com/nation/46415647...iD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

"Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have now genetically engineered a strain of mice whose FOXP2 gene has been swapped for the human version. Svante Paabo, in whose laboratory the mouse was engineered, promised that when the project was completed, "We will speak to the mouse."

He did not promise that the mouse would say anything in reply, doubtless because a great many genes must have undergone evolutionary change to endow people with the faculty of language, and the new mouse was gaining only one of them. So it is perhaps surprising that possession of the human version of FOXP2 does in fact change the sounds that mice use to communicate with other mice, as well as other aspects of brain function.

That is the result reported in the current issue of Cell by Wolfgang Enard, also of the Leipzig institute, and a team of researchers who studied 300 features of the humanized mice.

FOXP2, a gene whose protein product switches on other genes, is important during the development of the embryo and plays an active part in constructing many tissues, including the lungs, stomach and brain. It's so vital that mice in which both copies of the gene are disrupted die after a few weeks.

Despite the mammalian body's dependence on having its two FOXP2 genes work just right, Enard's team found that the human version seemed to substitute perfectly for the mouse version in all the mouse's tissues except for the brain.

In the language region of the brain, the basal ganglia, the humanized mice grew nerve cells that had a more complex structure and produced less dopamine, a chemical that transmits signals from one neuron to another. Baby mice utter ultrasonic whistles when removed from their mothers. The humanized baby mice made whistles that had a lower pitch, among other differences, Enard said.

Discovering that humanized mice whistle differently may seem a long way from understanding how language evolved. Enard argues that putting human genes into mice is the only way of exploring the essential differences between people and chimps, our closest relatives. And because there is no good way of genetically engineering chimps the mouse is the testbed of choice, Enard said.

"The most surprising finding, and cause for great optimism, is that the gene does seem to have a great effect on pathways of neural development in mice," said Dr. Joseph Buxbaum of Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Said Gary Marcus, who studies language acquisition at New York University: "People shouldn't think of this as the one language gene but as part of broader cascade of genes. It would have been truly spectacular if they had wound up with a talking mouse."

I'd say it was a simple well planned out show.

At least it may stimulate zoo visits..... but getting away from the soap operase is a challenge!

Once got locked in there with my wife about 3 years ago! We walked down some back avenues that were very quiet and very dark. Then, the security goy flipped out. There was no signal to leave the park, and it got dark very quickly.

Must have been having fun eh!

Perhaps they were part of this study

http://www.startribune.com/nation/46415647...iD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

"Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have now genetically engineered a strain of mice whose FOXP2 gene has been swapped for the human version. Svante Paabo, in whose laboratory the mouse was engineered, promised that when the project was completed, "We will speak to the mouse."

He did not promise that the mouse would say anything in reply, doubtless because a great many genes must have undergone evolutionary change to endow people with the faculty of language, and the new mouse was gaining only one of them. So it is perhaps surprising that possession of the human version of FOXP2 does in fact change the sounds that mice use to communicate with other mice, as well as other aspects of brain function.

That is the result reported in the current issue of Cell by Wolfgang Enard, also of the Leipzig institute, and a team of researchers who studied 300 features of the humanized mice.

FOXP2, a gene whose protein product switches on other genes, is important during the development of the embryo and plays an active part in constructing many tissues, including the lungs, stomach and brain. It's so vital that mice in which both copies of the gene are disrupted die after a few weeks.

Despite the mammalian body's dependence on having its two FOXP2 genes work just right, Enard's team found that the human version seemed to substitute perfectly for the mouse version in all the mouse's tissues except for the brain.

In the language region of the brain, the basal ganglia, the humanized mice grew nerve cells that had a more complex structure and produced less dopamine, a chemical that transmits signals from one neuron to another. Baby mice utter ultrasonic whistles when removed from their mothers. The humanized baby mice made whistles that had a lower pitch, among other differences, Enard said.

Discovering that humanized mice whistle differently may seem a long way from understanding how language evolved. Enard argues that putting human genes into mice is the only way of exploring the essential differences between people and chimps, our closest relatives. And because there is no good way of genetically engineering chimps the mouse is the testbed of choice, Enard said.

"The most surprising finding, and cause for great optimism, is that the gene does seem to have a great effect on pathways of neural development in mice," said Dr. Joseph Buxbaum of Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Said Gary Marcus, who studies language acquisition at New York University: "People shouldn't think of this as the one language gene but as part of broader cascade of genes. It would have been truly spectacular if they had wound up with a talking mouse."

Wow, that article is amazing. Imagine if a mouse had the brain capacity or learning capacity as a human. They'd wipe us out.....

Dangerous thought about genetic modification!

Rather spent time with donkeys than teachers.

Rather spent time with donkeys than teachers.

Until you came around!

I love it, the police say 34 were girls hahaha and who were the other 34, Aliens ?

Awwwww so sweet, Thai boys taking their girl friends for a trip to the zoo. 1 2 3 awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

It must be love, love love...

Bloody killjoys, probably M4 & M5 's having an adult day out...a victimless crime...wowsers!