Thailand Monkey Wars Escalate, as Rival Gangs Force Locals to Flee Homes

By R.C.

Thu, Jul 2, 2020 11:51 p.m.

Thailand Monkey Wars Escalate, as Rival Gangs Force Locals to Flee Homes

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/thailand-monkey-wars-escalate-rival-gangs-force-locals-flee-homes

Thailand Monkey Wars Escalate As Rival Gangs Force Locals To Flee Homes | Zero Hedge Monkeys in the Thai city of Lopburi have become particularly aggressive since coronavirus lockdowns significantly cut into the supply of treat-throwing tourists which had been feeding the city's wild macaques.. The monkeys, numbering in the thousands, have set up shop in an abandoned local cinema - brawling with each other when they aren't aggressively attacking locals. www.zerohedge.com

R.C.: And you thought Category 5 chimp outs in Chicago were bad.

N.S.: Macaques are extremely violent. The first time I ever read of an animal besides man that will kill for pleasure, as opposed to survival, it was a story on Japanese macaques in a pop science magazine in my first college's library, circa 1977.

I've since learned of dolphins and lions doing likewise, and had a tied-up Trinidadian goat try to trap my wrist against a tree stump, so he could ram me to death. (I know of at least three murderous Trini goats, though all have surely since been served as dinner.) That goat also tried the same maneuver on my niece, when she quickly, carefully pet him, even though she fed him.

I also once had three Trini dogs with no human supervision try to kill me with a triangle maneuver. (A young Indian man came out, scared them off, gave me a piece of broken, sharp plastic as a weapon, and called up a local to bodyguard me to the edge of the neighborhood.)

However, that incident, at the end of multiple packs of increasingly aggressive dogs following me on the same street, may have been a territoriality thing, as they did not act that way towards anyone they recognized as a neighbor. (It was my seamstress' street, not my in-laws.')