Town in Thailand lays on a banquet of fruit fit for a monkeyLOPBURI, Thailand -- It is a feast fit for a monkey king. On Sunday the central Thai town of Lopburi put on a five-star banquet for its hundreds of macaque inhabitants, sparking a mass simian food fight. Lopburi has been laying on an annual feast — part merit-making tradition and part unabashed tourist attraction — for its monkeys since the late 1980s. While Thailand is an overwhelmingly Buddhist nation, it has long assimilated Hindu traditions and lore from its pre-Buddhist era. "One of the monkeys wants to steal my hair clip and doesn't want to get off my shoulder.

Source: The China Post November 27, 2016 16:34 UTC