Local residents and park officers put fruit in the cage on a daily basis and in this way made sure the monkeys became accustomed to going in and out of it. The first sortie with the monkeys netted 80 of them.
The operation was staged in the southwest Bangkok community of Bang Kradi. Although the macaques had lived in the area long before Bangkok’s urban sprawl reached it, a series of public meetings resulted in a resolution to relocate the monkeys to a jungle area of Ratchaburi Province
Niphon Chotiban is the DNP’s director and he said the monkeys were at first going to a Samut Sakhon wildlife centre, Phan Thai Norasing, to be evaluated for any diseases or deformities. After that, one group would be sent to Ratchaburi’s Khao Son Wildlife Centre and the other to an island near their ancestral home at Bang Kradi.
Monkeys relocated from outlying Bangkok suburb
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Thai authorities have captured a tribe of monkeys that have been making life miserable for residents of an outlying Bangkok suburb. The Department of National Parks (DNP) had spent several weeks training the 400 macaque monkeys to enter a cage to eat before slamming the doors shut last week.