A Thai town, run ragged by its ever-growing population of marauding wild monkeys, launched an offensive against the simian raiders, using trickery and ripe tropical fruit.
The first stage of the plan, instituted on Friday, is to bait cages with the animals’ favourite food, then wait for hunger to get the better of their natural caution.
The cages had been placed on the street earlier in the week so the monkeys got used to them and found them less threatening.The capture of the unlucky trio and around 30 others – trapped in other parts of the town - slightly pared down that total.Bodies of three more Israeli hostages recovered from Gaza
The roaming monkeys have long been a symbol of the town, 140 kilometres north of Bangkok, and are a major tourist draw. The owners erected it at the time of the coronavirus pandemic, but keeping out the light-fingered primates was also a prime concern.“When there are a lot of monkeys around, customers are afraid of buying the goods at the shop. Only our regulars aren’t frightened,” said Supaporn Tantiwong.The town’s mayor, Chamroen Salacheep, agrees that the monkeys, while bringing in visitors, have also become bad for trade, with shops and malls seeing a drop in income and even people’s homes damaged.
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