Macaques have colonized a city in Thailand and converted a movie theatre into a cemetery

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/25/macaques-have-colonized-a-city.html

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They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs.

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“Wild Horny Sugar Junky Cinephile Monkeys”

A little long, but seems like a great band name.

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Perfect for “Where did you guys meet?” stories of the future.

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The Lawgiver was not wrong.

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How about, “Macaque Amok!” or “Macaque Attack!”

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All that’s missing is the cinema showing Werner Herzog’s “Nosferatu” on loop for this to be perfect. Wonder if Herr Director would allow a reshoot of the classic “Feast for the Dying” scene with monkeys?

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Ack! Don’t tell me their leader wears an eye patch and smokes cigars!

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City of the apes? Nope, that one was not on my 2020 bingo card.

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… So, the status quo, then.

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Not at all, Crazed Macaque would be a fairly big improvement.

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typically junk food and fizzy drinks stolen from local stores

Those are some felonious monks.

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I wonder if elastration is the method to accomplish this so quickly.

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:rofl: :smile: :laughing: :crazy_face: I see what you did there!!

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Please don’t taunt the dynamite monkeys.

Nearby, a shop owner displays stuffed tiger and crocodile toys to try to scare off the monkeys, who regularly snatch spray-paint cans from his store.

Wait, they’re tagging now??

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This was the plot of Gremlins 2 (though of course the movie theater scene was in the first movie).

Dead monkeys are laid to rest by their peers in the projection room in the cinema’s rear and any human who enters is attacked.

Here we see evolution in action, as this primate species develops burial rituals (in David Attenborough’s voice)