Some 50 monkeys crushed to death by a fallen big tree



CHANTABURI: -- About 50 long-tailed macaque were crushed to death under the weight of a huge Prado tree which fell onto the lawn of a school in Chanthaburi’s Muang district early Tuesday morning.

Mr Rangsan Kumtrakul, director of Khao Wongkot School, said it was lucky that the incident occurred during the early hours of Tuesday otherwise many students would have been hurt or killed had the incident occurred during the daytime.

He suspected that the ground where the huge tree stood might have softened after heavy rains in the past few days and three loosened up and collapsed while many monkeys were asleep on the tree.

Altogether 52 monkeys , including several young ones, were found dead on the ground.

Mr Rangsan, however, admitted that he felt saddened with the death of so many monkeys in one occasion because they have been in the school for a long time.

With the help of students and employees, the dead monkeys which included several adults and babies, were taken away for burial.

Several monkeys were found injured from the incident and the school had sought help from provincial officials to take care of the injured macaque.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/50-monkeys-crushed-death-fallen-big-tree/


-- Thai PBS 2016-06-15

Hmm... Don't see any "crushing" injuries to the bodies of those dead monkeys.. Looks more like electrocution or poisoning

Poor sods.

Looks like the monkey population is well and thriving.

Hmm... Don't see any "crushing" injuries to the bodies of those dead monkeys.. Looks more like electrocution or poisoning

Poor sods.

At first sight It looked strange to me too.

But I watched the video where you see the full height of the tree.

The report says 50m.

So if they sat high up and it happened suddenly and quickly it looks possible that they were killed when hitting the ground.

Looks like they have been thrown off the tree when it fell.

Bizarre.

Thats about 1% of the population, plenty more where that came from - I say most likely a lightening strike close by, they don't looked 'crushed' at all, no implosion, guts, blood, nothing.

Sloppy journalist. If he can not even get the amphur correct than a little thing like saying they were crushed rather than just died in the fall is of little importance.

Besides, if it was lightning the smell of barbecued monkey would be unmistakable not to mention mouthwatering.

In Thailand electrocution is blamed on Ghost.

 

Naughty Ghost picking on Monkeys

On 6/15/2016 at 4:28 PM, elgordo38 said:

Looks like the monkey population is well and thriving.

 

 

was

On 6/15/2016 at 11:59 AM, huangnon said:

Hmm... Don't see any "crushing" injuries to the bodies of those dead monkeys.. Looks more like electrocution or poisoning

Poor sods.

 

Yes, and the big fallen tree was merely a distraction.