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Nearly 100 monkeys escape enclosure in Thailand
Officials in a Thailand city said authorities are scrambling to capture nearly 100 monkeys that broke out of their enclosure.
Officials confirmed the monkeys escaped on Tuesday morning from the Lopburi Municipality Animal Nursery in Pho Kao Ton subdistrict, Mueang Lopburi district, while staff managed to keep more than 1,000 other primates from following their lead.
Lopburi Mayor, Chamroen Salacheep, ordered local police and other agencies to round up the monkeys before they can cause damage to the community.
The municipality, which is famous for its annual Monkey Buffet festival, was formerly home to a large number of free-roaming long-tailed macaques, but the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation handed down orders in 2024 for about 2,500 of the animals to be rounded up and put into large enclosures.
The decision came after multiple incidents of monkeys becoming violent in the search for food.