NO MORE MONKEY BUSINESS

Thai authorities plug primate problem plaguing many residents in cultural hub

Marauding monkeys will no longer face slingshots in the Thai city of Lopburi, where they have been rounded up and sterilized after turning rampant over the past four years.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Lopburi, many of its 58,000 residents casually fed the 3,000 long-tailed macaques that lived in the cultural hub.

People even threw an annual fruit banquet for the animals, drawing tourists to the "Monkey City" located north of Bangkok about three hours' drive away.