Thai Picture Moment : Monkey Buffet
A monkey licks a block of ice embedded with fruits and vegetables during the annual Monkey Buffet Festival, in front of the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi province, 94 miles north of Bangkok, Thailand, on November 25, 2007.
The festival provides various types of food and drink to the local monkey population, which numbers more than 2,000.
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[...] Lopburi province, Thailand: The Monkey Buffet Every year, all of the province’s approximately 600 monkeys are invited to eat fruits and vegetables during an annual feast held in honor of Rama, a hero of the Ramayana, who, it is said, rewarded his friend and ally, Hanuman the Monkey King, with the fiefdom of what is now Lopburi. [...]