Welcome to Lopburi, an ancient Thai city overrun by monkeys super-charged on junk food, whose population is growing out of control
"Their excrement is everywhere, the smell is unbearable especially when it rains."
Their antics were largely tolerated as a major lure for the tourist hordes who descended on the city before the coronavirus outbreak to feed and snap selfies with the plucky animals. As foreign tourism – Thailand's cash cow – seized up, so did the flow of free bananas tossed their way, prodding the macaques to turn to violence.Their growing numbers – doubling in 3 years to 6,000 – have made an uneasy coexistence with their human peers almost intolerable.An abandoned cinema is the macaques' headquarters – and cemetery. Dead monkeys are laid to rest by their peers in the projection room in the cinema's rear and any human who enters is attacked.
"The more they eat, the more energy they have...so they breed more," says Pramot Ketampai, who manages the Prang Sam Yod temple's surrounding shrines.
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