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Thailand’s ‘Monkey City’ overrun by gangs of hungry, horny macaques
coronavirus — and three months since the city’s wild macaques last had a good banana.The so-called “Monkey City” has gone bananas ever since, with locals forced into a double lockdown against the invisible threat of COVID-19, and against the loud, stinky, aggressive and highly visible threat of thousands of rampaging monkeys. Monkeys break into lab, steal COVID-19 samples in 'Planet of the Apes' raid Lopburi locals have barricaded themselves inside against the macaques, and the city has designated several no-go zones that have been entirely taken over by warring factions of monkeys.“We live in a cage but the monkeys live outside,” Lopburi resident Kuljira Taechawattanawanna told the AFP.