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Sudetenland Tales
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if they actually know how to use them, they do seem to understand how to pull a trigger, and are amused when the targeted hominids fall over or run away.
Authorities hope to enlist some 2,500 urban monkeys and place them in remedial programs, said Athapol Charoenshunsa, the director general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation. They'll work with wildlife experts to find a way for monkeys to safely stay at liberty in the city, he added.
‘I don’t want humans to have to hurt monkeys, and I don’t want monkeys to have to hurt humans,’ he told reporters during a news conference. ‘Separate facilities will be prepared for different monkey gangs to prevent them from fighting with each other. MS-13 monkeys will be off limits to the Mexican Mafia strain, and vice versa.’
The monkeys are more than just a symbol of the city, where the two year old Three Pagodas temple celebrates an annual ‘Monkey Buffet’ festival, and they're commonly seen throughout the city. Macaques are classified as a protected species under New York City’s wildlife conservation law.
Athapol said people shouldn't see monkeys as villains, saying that the authorities might have not been efficient enough in