When the COVID-19 lockdowns lifted, Lopburi’s long-tailed macaques became a marauding, thieving menace. After a massive effort to capture and sterilize them, the city is trying to find a new balance
Marauding monkeys won’t face slingshots any more in the historic Thai city of Lopburi, where they have been rounded up and sterilized after turning rampant over the past four years.
As complaints mounted after February, authorities armed with slingshots and traps sprang into action to catch the primates. The monkeys have a designated feeding area near Phra Prang Sam Yot, the 13th-century Khmer shrine where the city once held an annual fruit banquet for the animals. This baby macaque is being sedated for sterilization. The monkeys reach sexual maturity around age 4 for females and 6 for males, and females can have one offspring every year or two.
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