Showing posts with label Gangster-Monkeys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gangster-Monkeys. Show all posts

Friday, June 03, 2011

'Gangster' monkeys removed from Cambodian temple

Which of these two 'Gangster' hochimonkeys were removed?
Can you guess?

Hochimonkey Tep Vong

Hochimonkey Non Nget
3/06/2011
Bangkok Post

A gang of big, "sharp-toothed" monkeys have been caught at a Phnom Penh temple as part of a crackdown on the unruly animals after a spate of attacks on visiting tourists, a zoo official said on Friday.

Silvered langurs monkeys climb a tree in Mondulkiri, Cambodia. A gang of big, "sharp-toothed" monkeys have been caught at a Phnom Penh temple as part of a crackdown on the unruly animals after a spate of attacks on visiting tourists, a Cambodian zoo official says.

"Phnom Penh authorities asked us to remove the violent monkeys from the temple... The guards there said many visitors had been bitten by big monkeys," Nhek Rattanak Pich, director of Phnom Tamao Zoo and rescue centre, told AFP.