With more than 70 accomplices, a Lopburi long-tailed macaque broke free from its cage and began to run around looking for food. Some of the ringleader and other monkeys have been captured by the authorities, and they expect capturing the remaining ones in two days.
A large number of long-tailed macaques broke through the wire mesh fence of Cage A, which is home to 1,500 monkeys, at the Lopburi Municipal Animal Rehabilitation Center in Pho Kao Ton Subdistrict, Thailand, Mueang Lopburi District, Thailand, early on June 30, Channel 7 News, Thailand reports.
They made a lot of noise as they ran across the street and played on the rooftops of houses, police apartments, and the radio tower of the police station.To capture the runaway monkeys, officials from the Lopburi Municipality Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Unit and the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation have been sent to the area.
According to officials at the Lopburi Municipal Animal Shelter, around a hundred monkeys that were under the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation’s control and care have broken free from their enclosures. They have been successful in keeping the roughly 1,000 monkeys in the same enclosure from escaping any more.
Officials found a ringleader monkey known as “Ai Khai,” who had a habit of escapes and an aggressive personality. He is believed to have been the ringleader, guiding his comrades to search for food. Officials took advantage of the fact that he was lounging on a rooftop and used an air rifle to precisely tranquilize him.
