MONKEY GANGS OF LOPBURI
Not content with gang warfare outside the grounds of the temple where they live in Lopburi, Thailand (), the local macaques, deprived of their usual tourist handouts by the pandemic, have tightened their grip on the city streets, ransacking homes, shops and vehicles for food. Residents have taken to arming themselves with airguns and catapults to try and scare the animals away from their property, but are reluctant to kill them as they are widely venerated as descendants of the monkey god Hanuman.
