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    The Wider Image: Thai town emerges from monkey mania after

    Long-tailed macaques climb onto tourists during the annual Monkey Festival at Phra Prang Sam Yot temple, before officials started capturing monkeys, in Lopburi, Thailand, November 26, 2023. Before COVID-19 shut Lopburi, some of its 58,000 residents casually fed the 3,000 long-tailed macaques that lived alongside and even threw an annual fruit banquet for them, drawing tourists to "Monkey City", a three-hour drive north of Bangkok. The macaques, believed to bring good fortune, also inhabit nearby forests and have long been a part of the city's history. But after Lopburi came out of the pandemic lockdown in mid-2022, its residents found that the monkeys, without people feeding them, had become unruly. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
    The Wider Image: No more monkey mania in Thai town
    The Wider Image: No more monkey mania in Thai town

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