{"id":15778,"date":"2020-03-13T21:19:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T12:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/13\/fighting-monkeys-highlight-effect-of-coronavirus-on-thailand-tourism"},"modified":"2020-03-13T21:19:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T12:19:46","slug":"mass-monkey-brawl-highlights-coronavirus-effect-on-thailand-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15778","title":{"rendered":"Mass monkey brawl highlights coronavirus effect on Thailand tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer visitors mean less food for troops of wild monkeys at Prang Sam Yod<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus outbreak has left Thailand\u2019s hotels empty, its tour guides without work and its markets unusually quiet. The country\u2019s wildlife may also now be noticing the lack of visitors.<\/p>\n<p>A video filmed this week in Lopburi, north-east of Bangkok, showed large crowds of monkeys brawling in the streets, apparently fighting over a yoghurt pot. Residents in the city, which is famed for its monkey population, say the fall in tourist numbers means there are far fewer people offering food.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/13\/fighting-monkeys-highlight-effect-of-coronavirus-on-thailand-tourism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer visitors mean less food for troops of wild monkeys at Prang Sam YodThe coronavirus outbreak has left Thailand\u2019s hotels empty, its tour guides without work and its markets unusually quiet. The country\u2019s wildlife may also now be noticing the lack o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,93,1088,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-thailand","category-travel-leisure","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15837,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15778\/revisions\/15837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}