Wild Monkeys Take Over Entire Town

Monkeys are rampaging through a city in Thailand - overrunning the streets, climbing on cars and stealing from people. The primates roam freely through Lopburi, where there are an estimated 6,000 of them in a population of just 70,000 people. Hundreds of tourists used to visit the area every day to feed the monkeys but the Covid-19 coronavirus travel ban introduced in March has stopped their source of food. Following the drop in visitors, footage emerged showing the primates getting into a mass brawl over bananas after the supply dwindles. Since then, they have been given sugary snacks and junk food by locals but the diet has made them breed faster and many have become violent.

[christinawilder]

They need to stop feeding them & start fighting them off

[Sunshine]

I be poisoning bunch and bunch of food to thin out the herd. That's disgusting how you people let that happen. I couldn't live with rats. Ewwww

[jdmoore]

How can they complain that the monkeys are taking over their town when they invite them by feeding them?!!!!

[mikekeeler]

Don't feed them that's why there thare

[lbar]

Monkey's should fear humans, but it doesn't help when people own them, then release them when they grow up. And feeding them only makes them more bold!

[LeE-yfcm]

I see why some consider them vermin....

[rettagilland]

Start putting a lot down or cage a lot take them to woods

[jillmitchell]

I'm so thankful that there are no monkeys in the USA.

[ТатьянаМаксимова-ур]

Конечно перебор животных в черте города, но они не виноваты. Надо грамотно регулировать и держать под контролем количество животных.

[tommurphy]

they should train them to build EV's- they could pay them in banana futures

[patriciacook]

OMG they look like a rat infestation when trying to get the food, all gathered around, how do people live????

[regicorp]

Just release some tigers around the city.

[takemethere]

Time to go hunting or put them on the menu

[heatherfowler]

Lots of meat to feed every poor dog in the city and cat too

[oscarkoop]

I'd hand out guns and poison and have a free for all.

[lorawinfrey]

Use poison control that will send them out quick

[debrawatson-graumenz]

Poor creatures are starving and overpopulated.