News Forum - More than 100 monkeys tied in bags, trapped in cages rescued from home

[Thaiger]

More than 100 baby macaque monkeys were found at an abandoned home in Saraburi, some tied up in bags. One was dead. Some locked in plastic carriers were weak from hunger and thirst. Police suspect the home was being for storage by a wildlife smuggling gang preparing to transport and sell the monkeys across the border where the animals would be cooked as exotic dishes. A local found the monkeys and called authorities. Officers from the Phra Putthabat Police Station and a rescue team searched the abandoned home off Phu Khae – Lomsak road in Saraburi. Some monkeys were outside […]

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[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

Saw the news on TV, very ugly and sickening to watch.

[Lawyers_Guns_and_Money]

3 hours ago, Thaiger said:

More than 100 baby macaque monkeys were found at an abandoned home in Saraburi, some tied up in bags. One was dead. Some locked in plastic carriers were weak from hunger and thirst. Police suspect the home was being for storage by a wildlife smuggling gang preparing to transport and sell the monkeys across the border where the animals would be cooked as exotic dishes. A local found the monkeys and called authorities. Officers from the Phra Putthabat Police Station and a rescue team searched the abandoned home off Phu Khae – Lomsak road in Saraburi. Some monkeys were outside […]

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Silver lining is that now they are available to go work for Elon Musk's Neuralink company that is implanting bluetooth devices into monkeys to study the ability of connecting brains to computers. Plenty of opportunities since Elon's monkeys died. But to be clear, Elon says there was no animal cruelty present in the experiment where bluetooth devices where inserted into the monkeys brains. All the deaths were unrelated. 

[Smiler]

What sort of person eats monkey as an exotic dish? What is wrong with these people?

[Jason]

When you catch the perpetrator, forget prison...just lock them in the same cage the monkeys were in....

[butterfly]

8 minutes ago, Smiler said:

What sort of person eats monkey as an exotic dish? What is wrong with these people?

Chinese market, who else

[steve860]

7 minutes ago, Smiler said:

What sort of person eats monkey as an exotic dish? What is wrong with these people?

Don't Chinese eat monkeys? They eat pretty much everything else.

[Marble-eye]

21 minutes ago, steve860 said:

Don't Chinese eat monkeys? They eat pretty much everything else.

Only their nuts.

[HiuMak]

22 hours ago, Thaiger said:

More than 100 baby macaque monkeys were found at an abandoned home in Saraburi, some tied up in bags. One was dead. Some locked in plastic carriers were weak from hunger and thirst. Police suspect the home was being for storage by a wildlife smuggling gang preparing to transport and sell the monkeys across the border where the animals would be cooked as exotic dishes. A local found the monkeys and called authorities. Officers from the Phra Putthabat Police Station and a rescue team searched the abandoned home off Phu Khae – Lomsak road in Saraburi. Some monkeys were outside […]

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What Monkey Business is that