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The Monkey Buffet Festival is an annual festival held in Lopburi, Thailand. [1] In 2007, the festival included giving fruits and vegetables to the local monkey population of 2,000 crab-eating macaques in Lopburi Province north of Bangkok.
Giant trucks filled with fruit are presented to the thousands of monkeys living in the Province of Lopburi in Thailand at the Monkey Buffet Festival.
The monkey population has always been present in Lopburi, but the start of the locally-held Monkey Buffet Festival in 1989 led to a dramatic increase in their population. The festival serves a dual purpose, drawing in tourists while also honoring the traditional Lopburi belief that monkeys are disciples of Jao Paw Phra Kan , a spirit which ...
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