Wild Monkeys Get Their Own Buffet
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The Monkey Buffet Festival, held each year (November) in Lopburi, Thailand, is meant to promote tourism in the area and to give the local monkey population something to celebrate.
According to Sky News Australia, the feast at the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple attracts many of the area's 2,000 monkeys. Hopefully it was worth it for the monkeys as their feast cost around $16,000.
A monkey eats fruit in front of an ancient temple during the annual "monkey buffet" in Lopburi province, about 100 miles north of Bangkok on Nov. 27, 2011. More than 2,000 kilos of fruits and vegetables were offered to monkeys during the annual festival to help promote tourism in the area.
